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Word: classroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classroom, students will tackle competing, winning, losing and other "issues central to sports: race, medicine, economics, politics and cultural definition...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: I Want My MTV | 6/28/1987 | See Source »

Your idea of a perfect summer probably isn't spending eight weeks in a classroom with fluorescent lighting, studying calculus or writing essays. Who wants to take an organic chemistry textbook to the beach--or wake up to a grating alarm clock through the sultry months of July and August...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: I Want My MTV | 6/28/1987 | See Source »

Move over PBS. MTV is taking over in at least one Harvard classroom. Students taking Royston Coppenger's course, "Popular Entertainment: From Melodrama to Rock and Roll," will spend classtime watching film and video screenings of popular works...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: I Want My MTV | 6/28/1987 | See Source »

...custodian in a public high school, bringing home $1,000 in a good month. "I was paying $400 a month for child care," she recalls. "We didn't buy anything." When that failed, she began bringing her children to work with her, hiding them in an empty home- economics classroom while she mopped floors and hauled huge barrels of trash for eight hours a day. "I'd sneak them in after the teacher left and check on them every 30 minutes or so." She finally quit last February and slipped onto the welfare rolls. She applied for state child-care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Child-Care Dilemma | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...with a profound faith in the free market, Greenspan has earned the attention of thinkers in every ideological camp. As a White House official, he displayed the dedication and dexterity needed to fashion difficult political compromises. And, unlike many economists who flourish mainly in the confines of a college classroom, Greenspan scored a solid success in the corporate world. His highly profitable, 34-year-old Townsend-Greenspan consulting firm numbers among its clients some of the largest U.S. corporations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Conservative Who Can Compromise | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

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