Word: concepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creativity," says Sean Riley, 18, who plans to profile Redskins Quarterback Doug Williams. "What you write about is up to you, and you have to learn to be independent." More students may soon learn firsthand what Riley means: Washington school officials are considering expanding the Odyssey Project concept so that special training in writing skills will be available to all of the district's students...
...Chinas have emerged. In the relatively prosperous coastal regions, millions of successful entrepreneurs are building a future in exports to the outside world. Meanwhile, most of the interior provinces lag well behind, thanks to stagnant state planning, price-controlled agriculture and millions of cadres clinging to Mao's rusty concept of the "iron rice bowl," lifelong employment guaranteed by the state. In parts of the interior, especially the large cities and Sichuan, Deng's home province and the laboratory for economic reform, some have prospered. But not many. The eleven western provinces and territories, including the huge Tibetan and Xinjiang...
...intolerable that the working class should have to pay such an inordinate amount of the cost of Reagan's extravagance. While multi-millioniares like Pete Peterson may righteously demand self-sacrifice, they have no concept of what such policy means to the tens of millions of Americans who have already suffered economically under Reagan...
...meet Bill Lee when I was eleven years old. He was my hero even then. My father and I sat next to him in a local pub, watching him swill beer and listening to him talk about Eastern mysticism and the concept of infinity. No doubt my admiration for such an odd figure was disturbing to my parents. Lee had admitted to being a frequent user of marijuana, and to avoid penalty from the Baseball Commission for smoking it, he fabricated a story of sprinkling pot on his organic buckwheat pancakes. The THC, he claimed, would be activated...
...wake up on Opening Day just as we wake up on any other day. And if history has conditioned us to be rabid Jim Rice hecklers, nothing inherent in the concept of Opening Day is going to stop...