Word: callings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope and told to believe that it cannot succeed, no matter how hard it tries, Fallows urges the implementation of conservative solutions like workfare and education vouchers. As for those inner-city schools that repeatedly fail to install confidence or discipline in students, Fallows seems to put out a call for Joe Clark, the New Jersey principal who is known for walking around while carrying a baseball bat and a bullhorn...
...have always been a compulsive shopper. This time, however, I was a bit too compulsive-I signed up for Ec 10 after attending only one lecture. Call that Big Mistake...
...lecture a bunch of chemists or engineers about the importance of not saying "It would be appreciated if you would contact the undersigned by telephone at your earliest possible convenience," and instead saying "Please call me as soon as you can," which was revealed wisdom to these people...
...British colony is not alone in suffering from what refugee workers call compassion fatigue. Over the past decade, the world's refugee population has ballooned from 4.6 million to almost 14.5 million. Many of the displaced have fled civil strife and hope to go home someday, like the 6 million Afghans living in camps in Pakistan and Iran. Some, like the Bulgarians of Turkish descent who are streaming into Turkey at the rate of more than 2,000 a day and the Rumanians of Hungarian origin who are seeking safety in Hungary, are too caught up in the frightened flight...
...Their private room ($175 a night) connects with Mom and Dad's ($235 for a deluxe room) and comes equipped with tiny terry robes and teddy bears. Instead of mints on the pillows, children find Oreos or Blue Chip cookies and milk after a night on the town. One call to housekeeping will produce not only fresh towels and ice cubes, but also games, books, diapers and the use of a Nintendo video game. A pediatrician is on call round the clock. "Our business has doubled," says general manager Stan Bromley, who began emphasizing service to children about two years...