Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Home and family life -- even in middle-class suburbia -- is not what it used to be. With divorce commonplace, youngsters frequently careen back and forth between parents like shuttlecocks. "We used to send one report card home with each student and deal with one set of parents," recalls Kay Grady, a counselor at Hillview Elementary School in affluent Menlo Park, Calif. "Now we send two to two households and sometimes arrange for separate conferences." That is, if the parents have time. Single parents and two- earner couples are often just too fatigued at the end of the day to show...
Cambridge voting machines, like many across the country, use a computer-scanned punch-card ballot. Voters place the card underneath a "ballot book" containing the names of the candidates and punch numbered holes out of the card with a metal needle...
Because Thompson's name was covered by hers, Graham argues that some voters may have punched the card--and voted for Thompson--thinking they were voting for her. Graham's campaign acknowledges that some of these stickers might have been misplaced in ignorance, but said some of it may have been the result of deliberate tampering by Thompson supporters...
...greeting-card creator Susan Polis Schutz were fashioning a card to mark the event, it might feature a Day-Glo rainbow anchored in a pot of gold. Schutz and her husband Stephen, both 44, won a two-year battle that pitted their small, Boulder-based card company, Blue Mountain Arts, against the giant of the business, Hallmark Cards...
Though the note was anonymous, the CGLA charged that it was left by football players. "At the time the card was found, only football players were left in the dining hall," said Margarita M. Suarez, co-chair CGLA. "We believe that Gilmore is a role model for his players. How could AIDS death threats come out of complaints only directed at someone's cleanliness...