Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Florida school, however, has effectively closed the classroom door against the political scandal raging outside. Last month, the school board at East Lake High School in Clearwater forbade Linda Manning, who teaches a government class for seniors, from using the Kenneth W.Starr report or Clinton's taped testimony in a discussion of the Lewinsky affair...
...Redmond, however, is to rise above the particular issues and become recognizable and respected spokespersons for the student body. This year, as Stewart has acknowledged, the council's leaders largely retreated into the council itself and into behind-the-scenes negotiations with administrators. Such a return to the closed-door, inner-circle style of the council's past squanders the opportunity presented by popular elections: to speak to and for thousands of students, focusing our attention and energies on the major concerns...
...crimes cases against American troops abroad, or even decision makers at home. Now, if courts around the world begin to step in as Garzon has done, the U.S. could decide that a well-designed tribunal with established procedures would be better than worrying about that midnight knock on the door...
...Salinas affair has obviously embarrassed Citibank, a proud institution widely admired around the world. But the affair has done more: it has opened a door on the multibillion-dollar profits and potential pitfalls that beckon in a slice of the global banking business little known to the general public--a slice of the business that is growing rapidly, and for which Citigroup and its giant international rivals are competing ferociously...
ACQUITTED. CHRIS WEBBER, 25, Sacramento Kings basketball star; of marijuana possession, assault and resisting arrest. Maryland police officers said they subdued Webber when he tried to prevent them from opening his car door. Webber claimed he was on the phone to his lawyer when police yanked him from...