Word: breaches
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...future school districts will be able to choose just how to overcome English language deficiencies. Schools that use federal funds have had to make at least some effort toward that end since 1974. At that time the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Lau vs. Nichols, that attempts to breach language barriers are required by the equal opportunity provisions of the Civil Rights Act. Ironically, the regulations Bell rolled back were initially proposed by his predecessor, Shirley Hufstedler, to clear up confusion over 1975 guidelines that attempted to explain just what kind of special instruction the Lau case required...
...after dinner. The baronet, once speaker of the Northern Ireland Parliament and a former head of the Black Order (a staunch Protestant group), was relaxing in his ancestral home when suddenly the great wooden doors of the 18th century castle were blasted open by a violent explosion. Through the breach burst eight gunmen. The masked and heavily armed terrorists shot the victims through their heads, set off incendiary bombs that burned Tynan Abbey to a shell and fled -right into the gun sights of waiting police, who had been alerted by the blasts...
Faculty members considered a lawsuit charging breach of contract. "The plans are madness," snorted John West, assistant professor of political science, who flew back from Paris for the new term only to discover that his class had been scrapped. Students registered for West's course in Middle Eastern Politics found themselves dumped into...
...allowed two of the more glittering panes to fall from the A.B.T. lamp. Celebrated Ballerina Gelsey Kirkland, 27, and fast-rising Principal Dancer Patrick Bissell, 23, were dismissed from the company, one day before the season's opener at Washington's Kennedy Center. The official reason: "gross breach of contract." The two had failed to appear for a dress rehearsal, explained Executive Director Herman Krawitz, and had been "chronically late-and absent-for rehearsals [for] 13 weeks." Friends of the brilliant but erratic Kirkland speculated that she might be distracted by a romance with Bissell. Others said...
...troops it had dispatched to the Jordanian border. Officials in Amman, though, were initially skeptical. Said Jordanian Minister of Information Adnan Abu Odeh: "We will make our judgment known when we see the last Syrian soldiers withdrawing from their positions." Then, in a further effort to heal the breach between the two antagonistic countries, King Khalid of Saudi Arabia invited both Jordan's King Hussein and Syria's President Hafez Assad to Riyadh for a detailed discussion of their differences...