Word: deaf
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...professed to like the Coalition's approach. So with an eye toward helping the Coalition raise money, they happily played host to 10 current and potential contributors at their huge, old house, overlooking a pool, a tennis court and 56 rural hectares. George Fellendorf, a semiretired teacher of the deaf who is the state chapter's unpaid chairman, told Reed that after 18 months of organizing, it was time for the state association to get a full-time, paid executive director. "We're at a turning point," he said. Looking around at his affluent welcome, Reed could not help agreeing...
...seeing these loose organizations as a danger. "People just weren't willing to listen," admits a senior official. "We would attend training seminars with East and West Coast departments and come back trying to convince our own powers that be of a potential catastrophe. But it just fell on deaf ears...
...block went out on their own, mostly because of their dislike for "Sally." It's the end of my junior year, and I just found out three more left. Now I'm all alone with Sally. Sally, Sally, Sally. She drives me absolutely bonkers. She talks louder than my deaf grandmother, smells like the MAC, and follows the "creative chaos" method of housekeeping. Not to mention that she listens to Mariah Carey. And you should meet her boyfriend. Yuck! Not only am I pissed that my "friends" have left me all alone with Sally for my senior year (what does...
...taking advantage of others, and our ability to resist this temptation is the result of a lifetime of learning and experience. The most common arguments for acting honestly, such as "it's the right thing to do" and "do unto others..." seem trite, corny and often fall on deaf ears. Quite simply, when viewed by themselves these phrases seem no more than empty shells and offer no good reason why we should pass up $3,000 in exchange for a bit of rhetoric...
Some students have criticized Police Chief Paul E. Johnson's handling of this and other racially-tinged incidents during his 12-year tenure. They say that Johnson and the rest of the administration have turned a deaf ear to the concerns of students who have experienced alleged harassment from HUPD officers...