Word: developing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS struggle began last December, when Boston Mayor Ray Flynn hired Harvard Professor Charles Willie and Michael Alves, a former head of the state desegregation office, to develop a more flexible desegregation scheme for the city...
...They come in, four and five at a time, and you can't see them steal," Taylor said. Taylor said Tommy's would not develop a a policy like Sage, Jr. but would rely on more traditional enforcement methods...
...Youngsters receive four times as much exposure on average as adults to the eight carcinogenic pesticides evaluated. As many as 6,200 of today's preschoolers, the study predicts, may develop cancer sometime in their life as a result of pesticide-contaminated produce they consume as children...
...many children of the urban poor so uncomfortable in school? One explanation comes from University of Chicago Professor Dolores Norton, who is conducting a unique study of the intellectual development of children in poor families. Her conclusion: growing up in an unstructured home environment, they do not develop a sense of time that enables them to adapt well to school. "When they come to school, these children enter a world that was not created for them," says Norton, who teaches at the university's School of Social Service Administration. "Imagine yourself in a classroom with adults who speak your language...
...unique study shows that inner-city youngsters often grow up in homes where there are few daily routines. The children do not develop the sense of time that is needed in a classroom environment...