Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with substandard grades, were allowed to pass, allegedly so that they could play in the 1982 Sugar Bowl. After speaking out against this and other examples of classroom cosseting of star jocks with fourth-string grades, she was demoted and then fired by the university in 1983. In deep despair, she twice attempted suicide...
Although Keller later allowed the team to resume its schedule, he said his reaction to the incident was "horror and disgust, and some amount of despair that we, as academic institutions, have created the environment in which that can happen." Last week the university suspended two more players for breaking unspecified "team rules," forcing Interim Coach Jimmy Williams to recruit * three new players, including two from the football team, to fill in during a stunning 70-65 upset victory over Ohio State...
...loves to talk gadgetry and hankers to go weightless. He does not know that much about the byways of the solar system. But his sense of American pride has been almost faultless. He has understood intuitively that people must have a challenge that takes them out of the despair that crowds every day. There must be a new frontier beckoning, promising some new hope. He even sees space as a way, in his words, "to render nuclear weapons obsolete." But his proposal to build and perhaps share satellite-based missile defense shields failed to produce the superpower cooperation he says...
...aimed at a college audience, but it is worth seeing nonetheless. One leaves the theater with a beautiful sense of the grandeur, contradictions, and irony in the landscape and society of Texas. We see women with beehive hairdos who drink Coca-Colas at the corner drugstore juxtaposed with the despair of fertile farmland gone...
...reasons, but once they're there, it's difficult for them to leave. Christopher Blanchard, who spent two years on the street and now works for the Coalition for the Homeless, says "Many street people feel they are subject to forces beyond their control." Locked in a cycle of despair and helplessness, they tend to rationalize their position, trying to convince themselves and others that they "want to be on the street...