Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schools for which they are under-qualified, while cheapening the achievements of those who could have succeeded without preferential treatment. Social programs pushed by the civil rights establishment often aggravate the problems they are supposed to solve. The crises of the ghetto--rampant crime, wanton violence, the high school dropout rate, illegitimate births--can no longer be attributed simply to white racism, nor can they be solved simply with more money from Washington. Blacks must take primary responsibility for the "social pathologies" that ail their communities...
Higher education is becoming increasingly inaccessible for already under-represented minorities because of high dropout rates, more rigorous testing and admission standards, and reduced financial aid, according to a report to be released Friday by a national education lobby...
Sears is especially funny as the Bumiller siblings, a trio of screwed up adolescents whose main problem is boredom; there's Stanley, the reform school dropout, Jody, patron of the stray-puppy population, and their overweight sister Charlene, who's life is ruined because she'll never make cheerleader. The two-man show offers up some great lines, like when Mrs. Bumiller tries to offer the usual motherly consolation "wait until next year" to her depressed daughter, and Charlene points out that she's already a senior. The duo earned their three ovations opening night with their flawless...
...attended Dartmouth, worked for Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign and later as a reporter for the Boston Globe. Ned Krutsky is a strong, silent type who got his education at a small Quaker college and a house in Haight-Ashbury. Jim Locke, son of a lawyer and a college dropout, built his first house from a "hippy-dippy how-to-do-it book...
Coelho complied, and he was far from the only dropout. Though the council had counted more than 40 elected officials as potential participants at the start of last week, only 23 would let their names be included in a formal list of members that the group issued a few days later. At week's end Robb, Jim Blanchard of Michigan, and Bruce Babbitt of Arizona were the only Governors remaining of ten whose names had appeared on preliminary lists (among the dropouts: Bob Graham of Florida, Bill Clinton of Arkansas, Richard Lamm of Colorado). Ohio Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar announced...