Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...researchers would like to see more apprenticeship in the classroom. Says Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers: "Schools are not organized according to the way most people learn. We might be more successful if we structured learning in schools more like the way things are done in the real world -- with apprenticeship-type programs connecting abstract symbols to the solution of real problems...
Over at city hall, Mayor Officer somehow manages to remain determinedly upbeat, citing an ambitious $437 million plan for developing the East St. Louis riverfront that would include a cargo port, recycling center and high- rise apartments overlooking the river and downtown St. Louis. But no work has been done on the project for three years, and the tax-exempt status of the bonds sold to finance it is under review by the Internal Revenue Service. "I'm still optimistic," Officer insists. "We'll haul ourselves up by our bootstraps." But attorney Rex Carr, a lifelong resident of the city...
...computer terminals and began updating the story that Associate Editor Jill Smolowe had finished Friday evening. Picture Editor Michele Stephenson sorted through color photos coming in by satellite, and Deputy Art Director Arthur Hochstein prepared the new cover. Sunday morning, as the sun was rising over Manhattan, we were done...
...interest in a one-line amendment to a bill that will save his industry millions of dollars, but because he is, well, a friend. Perhaps Tony Coelho really believed it when he said that junk-bond wizard Michael Milken "is constantly thinking about what can be done to make this a better world." Now under indictment, Milken faces the prospect of doing his thinking in prison...
...accept and wait longer and longer periods of time before they are allowed to lobby their former colleagues. But disclosure works for Congress only if constituents have the opportunity to pore through the voluminous reports and then vote based on what they find there. This welter of regulations has done almost nothing to choke off the cash flow...