Word: cliffes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three days a week students learn math, science and English. On the other days they may be dangled off a cliff, abandoned two miles deep in a cave or locked in a padded cell. At Butler High School in western Pennsylvania, this harsh treatment is known as stress education for "in-school dropouts"-the disruptive students and juvenile offenders...
Doug Mason began the Harvard comeback by recording a shutout with a 5-0 decision in the 150 lb. class. Next, Jim Corcoran pinned previously undefeated Cliff Verron at 3:44 in the 158 lb. division to tie the team score...
...protests have been sparked by the continuing scandal involving David Begelman, 56, president of film and television operations for Columbia Pictures. Though Begelman admitted embezzling more than $60,000 from Columbia and signing at least three checks with fake signatures, including that of Actor Cliff Robertson, he was returned practically unpunished to his $400,000 post. His reinstatement, which was seen as a symbol of the arrogant power wielded by Hollywood's kingmakers, became too much to stomach even for many veterans of the cynical film community...
...amount of land the tribes receive will determine the future of the tribes, Cliff Saunders '69, executive director of the Boston Indian Council, said yesterday...
...whereas past Mississippi leaders helped forge an alliance between the small landed proprietors and the amorphous bourgeoisie, the sinews of Cliff Finch's power steam from a different coalition of two fairly distinct socio-economic classes-the blue-collar laborers living in the industrial centers of the state and the tenacious Mississippi farmers who eke out subsistence wages on their 100 or so acres of soil. This time the middle-class--the Chamber of Commerce set--has been left out in the cold...