Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were having bad dreams in their "residential areas." After all, they're not the ones who have to stay up all night, hungry, writing papers or copying materials at Kinko's. The students do. And the students should have more options than the Tasty when it's three o'clock in the morning...
...turning back the clock. It was like being told you have to go to the back of the bus," recalls Lucy Wilson, then an associate dean at Old Dominion University and one of two black school-board members who initially voted against the plan. When the federal court's ruling rendered the return to neighborhood schools inevitable, Wilson and the other dissenter changed their votes in exchange for a commitment that the all-black schools would be targeted for extra resources, though Wilson doubts the promise will be kept forever. (As Harvard School of Education sociologist Gary Orfield has observed...
...They were hiding outside of my door at midnight and they were there at seven o'clock the next morning," the student says. "I think they slept in the hallway...
...clock in the morning on April 21 of last year, two New York City cops watched four men dump two duffel bags into the trunk of a double-parked red Chevrolet Caprice. The men ran off as the officers approached, but the driver permitted a search of the bags. Inside were 80 lbs. of cocaine and heroin worth approximately $4 million. Later, during a 40-minute videotaped confession, the driver admitted to being a professional drug courier. This had been her 20th trip...
...even though I would do almost anything to turn back the clock, maybe this purge has been good for me. Every closet-even mine-could use a good cleaning every once in awhile...