Word: donee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sophomore at a high school much like the one featured in your article, and would like to commend you on a job well done. Your team of journalists made sense in a week of the bizarre world of high school. To your great credit, you unmasked many of the problems in American schools--persecution by administrators of people who "don't fit in," a quickness to medicate anyone with a problem--along with many of the concerns of my parents' generation (alcohol and drug abuse, premarital sex). GEOFFREY HUGHES Winston-Salem...
...partly because Erica, 12, and Monica, 16, usually bring home A's and B's. But it's also because their parents look beyond the grades. What's most important, says their mother Brenda, is that Monica and Erica "have learned as much as they can and have done the best job they're capable of doing." To honor their learning and hard work, Brenda and her husband Gregory typically treat the girls to a Chinese dinner or a movie...
Accentuate the positive, advises Jennifer Richard Jacobson, author of How Is My First Grader Doing in School? "Say, 'Look at all you learned!'" Even if the grades are poor, parents can ask, "What do you think you've done well? What are you proud of?" says Jacobson. Then ask, "What are you finding hard? Where are you having trouble...
...both readers and advertisers, of mainstream publications like People (which, like Time, is published by Time Inc.). Casual headline scanners in grocery check-out lines may not have noticed the difference yet, but Pecker claims it exists. "If there's a Hollywood scandal, the investigative portion will be done by the National Enquirer. The impact on celebrities, on their careers, that will be done by the Star...
...arrived.? Like the shorts and t-shirts that we both sleep in and wear underneath, the sweat suit is thin, gray and disappointingly cheap-looking.? We all feel like unemployed folks.? This impression is confirmed by the fact that despite the "PT" affixed to said threads, we have not done a lick of physical training - not a single calisthenic - since we got here...