Word: discards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...making his proposals, Bush is expected to accept most of the recommendations made by a special commission he established and discard some others...
...years ago to teenage parents. His father packed meat and sold cars. His mother educated herself, first to teach, then to go to law school. They raised a remarkable boy by never treating him too remarkably. "I had a hook," he says. "I hated it. They let me discard it." They let him dream of anything. "Growing up, I always pictured myself as a baseball player, but I can't remember how many hands I had in my dreams. I never thought to myself, 'Wow, I only have one hand. Can I eat with a certain fork?' I just...
...must a community be so stubborn and unyielding as to discard the obvious benefits of student choice, and not accept in moderation the sacrifice of promoting diversity...
...officials will discard an entry if they know it is filled out by an intercollegiate athlete. Apparently the officials who selected the entries did not realize Brown was a member of the JV basketball team, Cicero said...
...State Rep. Nicholas A. Paleologos (D-Woburn), co-chair of the legislature's Education Committee, said Tsongas and the regents are trying to strengthen areas of growing student interest and discard under-used sectors of the system. These could involve selling portions of college campuses and using the proceeds to finance other areas of higher education...