Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cavazos, 61, professes to agree with the goals of the Reagan Administration, which include holding educators accountable for school improvement, raising standards and giving parents more freedom to choose the schools their children attend. But he has also made it clear that his chief priority is to make education more accessible to the disadvantaged. He favors increases in student aid and is a staunch advocate of bilingual education. In almost every speech he decries the fact that 25% of the nation's teenagers drop out before completing high school and that 40% of Hispanics still have no diploma...
...school of medicine at Tufts University. In both posts Cavazos gained a reputation for relaxed geniality -- and a backbone of steel. "If he gets pushed too far, watch out," says Michael Collins, assistant dean for government and medical affairs at Tufts Medical School. His tenacity was abundantly clear in 1984, when the faculty at Texas Tech approved a no-confidence vote against him in a dispute over a proposed change in tenure requirements. After two years of quiet lobbying, Cavazos managed to get a slightly revised version of the measure adopted...
...importance of France is clear in rehearsal photos too, but elsewhere the reader could wish that Fraser and Arnold had checked in more with each other. The pictures show that ballet master David Richardson is part of the inner circle, but he doesn't figure in the text. The tart voice of corps member Ty Granaroli is invigorating, but there is no captioned picture of him. But then, some of the best shots are of dancers with their dogs, hauled along on the lonely tours. And the piles of pointe shoes, grubby, used-up torture instruments. A ballerina...
Moments later, with his wife Mila and their three eldest children looking on, the Prime Minister declared on national television that Canada had embarked on an era of "openness to the rest of the world." Voters, he said, "have stated with a clear sense of their identity what they want to be and what they want...
...third technique being used to clear blood vessels is balloon angioplasty, in which a tiny collapsed balloon is threaded into a blocked passage and inflated. Atherosclerotic plaque is crushed against the artery walls, widening the blood pathway. Yet another delicate operation entails tying off penile veins that fail to close during sexual arousal, thus allowing blood to leak away from the penis and inhibiting an erection. Vascular operations carry steep price tags...