Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest problem for the schools: finding qualified students in an age when women's liberation has put child care behind the "Gingham Curtain." Minimum admission requirements at most centers are a high school diploma, psychological tests and a criminal record check. Tuitions range from $900 to $2,000, prohibitive to many candidates. Typically, says North American's Bunge, "I'm attracting young women with no formal backgrounds from little towns. They already work with children, but they make peanuts...
...romance too and got over it in 48 hours, Ueberroth recalls. Two years before finishing high school, Ueberroth moved out of the house and into Twelveacres, an orphanage for children from broken homes. He was the recreation director and was paid $125 a month. When he was handed his diploma, in 1955, all 28 of the boys from Twelveacres stood up in the bleachers and shouted: "Daddy Pete...
Presidents Bok and Horner that year signed an agreement giving Harvard the tuition money and the responsibility for educating undergraduates. This ended Radcliffe's 98-year history as a private women's college with close historical ties to Harvard, whose students paid it tuition and got a Radcliffe diploma...
...polite language of diploma cy only partly disguised Washington's fury over the Soviet press's accusations that the Central Intelligence Agency was behind Mrs. Gandhi's assassination. The day after the Indian leader's death, the So viet news agency TASS reported that Sikh "extremists and spies" had admitted being trained by the CIA. Pravda, the Communist Party daily, also contended that the CIA had stirred up the separatist movement in India. An angry Shultz spent the first half of the meeting with Tikhonov complaining about the news accounts, adding that the U.S. would hold...
...Diploma...