Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a strong core of young players and the legendary coaching of Bill Cleary, the hockey team will surely create more than its share of excitement on frigid Friday and Saturday nights at Bright Center...
...rather ordinary star, its vital statistics are breathtaking by earthly standards. Some 865,000 miles in diameter, it consists largely of hydrogen (72%) and helium (27%) and is 333,000 times as massive as the earth. Solar temperatures range from about 27 million degrees F* in the core, where 600 million tons of hydrogen are fused into helium every second, to 10,000 degrees F on the photosphere, or surface...
...Teaching an interdisciplinary core curriculum that would include English, fine arts, foreign languages, history, literature, math, science and social studies. The emphasis would be on critical thinking -- making connections between ideas -- rather than rote learning. To promote positive values and encourage good citizenship, the curriculum would include health instruction and community-service activities...
...they are less sure about the government's commitment. Angered by the failure of the Israeli army to put down the uprising and its inability to provide them with sufficient protection from the daily onslaught of stones, some of the settlers have launched an intifadeh of their own. Hard-core extremists, numbering several thousand, have organized a vicious campaign of retaliation against Palestinian villages that is inflaming hatred, threatening to escalate the violence racking the Holy Land, and bringing the settlers into dangerous confrontation with the Israeli army itself...
...effective smear has at its core an outrageous charge that would be devastating if true. The author must be both coy and cowardly: he must make the charge stick while retaining deniability. Although Goodin, Atwater's friend of a decade, took the fall, the tactic bore the unmistakable Atwater stamp. As Bush's 1988 campaign manager, Atwater specialized in character assassination: last summer Michael Dukakis was dogged by rumors that he had been treated for depression. In a similar incident in 1980, Atwater was managing the campaign of South Carolina Congressman Floyd Spence when a reporter asked Spence's Democratic...