Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passions raised by the venerable legal strategy of trying to discredit the victim got further visibility last week at hearings in another much publicized case, the murder trial of Robert Chambers, 20. A handsome preppie college dropout, Chambers claims to have accidentally strangled Jennifer Levin, 18, when she hurt him during predawn sex in New York City's Central Park last August. To bolster Chambers' version of the killing, Defense Attorney Jack Litman attempted to obtain Levin's diary as evidence, characterizing it as a chronicle of her "kinky and aggressive" sex life. After reading the diary privately, the presiding...
Once upon a time the story of the Wedtech Corp. seemed to be a modern urban fairy tale, a kind of parable showing that America was still the land of opportunity. The story began in New York City in 1965, when John Mariotta, a diemaker, high school dropout, and the Manhattan-born son of Puerto Rican parents, invested $3,000 to start a small manufacturing company in a renovated brick garage in a desolate area of the South Bronx. Five years later Mariotta struck up a partnership with Fred Neuberger, a mechanical engineer who as a boy had escaped Nazi...
Others started playing video games when they were quite young and haven't stopped yet. "Across the street from my elementary school was an arcade owned by a drug-dealing high-school dropout who was dedicated to education," says Wice. "She'd give us free games for every A on our report card, so I started playing pinball in the fourth grade. She used to sell a lot of pot, too, but I didn't know what at was at the time...
...eighth-grade parochial school dropout from South Boston said Saturday she had been addicted to heroin for eight years and was rejected three times previously for long-term methadone treatment...
...mother, the committee pronounced itself "not favorably disposed to the use of surrogate mothers for nonmedical reasons." But the members declined to issue an across-the-board condemnation. And they deplored the absence of reliable data from which to draw conclusions. Mary Beth Whitehead is a high school dropout who married at 16. Is that typical of surrogate mothers? Are they more likely % to be exploited or fulfilled, altruistic or driven by dark motives...