Word: cores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whereas Paris had been a Core course in failure, New York gave me a glimpse at the outer limits of ambition and success. Most of the energy which I encountered was youthful and venturesome. But as one might expect, some of the striving was sustained by less appealing qualities. An extreme case was a vulgar Citizen Kane whose quiet dinner party I attended one summer evening I was greeted at the entrance to his Park Avenue estate by an armed bodyguard placed there for protection against a vindictive ex-wife. The host led the several of us on a tour...
...beyond, with an all-pro fervor that is deep into funk and goes very light indeed on the old druggy dolor. Bowie's voice is like pulverized gravel. It can give a strong foundation to a desperate love song like "Heroes," or lead straight and true to the tough core of Fame, with its nervy, insolent last line: "What's your name?" Onstage, he seems taller than his 5 ft. 10 in. because he uses his body like a precision instrument, posing, preening, driving the song along not just with an inflection of voice but with an indentation...
...vaccine, which is given in two or three injections at monthly intervals, is effective for at least two years and has no side effects. Its safety, he says, is due to the fact that the vaccine is made from a virus that has been stripped of its DNA core and thereby rendered harmless. Skinner estimates, however, that it will be at least two years before the vaccine is thoroughly tested...
...slim book published by the Government Printing Office: A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. Warning of "a rising tide of mediocrity" in public schools, the 36-page report by the N.C.E.E. is already into a third printing, with 81,000 copies distributed. It recommends a basic core curriculum for all high school students, stricter admission requirements for college, longer school days and years, more homework, and the recruiting and rewarding of better teachers. Echoing the Sputnik scare, the report concludes, "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists...
...core of the divestiture debate lies a fundamental question: What is the impact of U.S. corporate involvement in South Africa and what would be the effects of withdrawal...