Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...system faces enormous problems: 30% of Boston's high school students cannot read; the dropout rate is a staggering 47%; in twelve years enrollment dropped 40%, from 96,000 to 58,000. Says Boston School Superintendent Robert ("Bud") Spillane, who has held his job only 18 months: "There is no question that the school system has been abandoned...
...young college dropout named Christopher Boyce, then 21, got a job as a communications clerk with TRW, a California defense contractor that was working on surveillance satellites for the CIA. He was disillusioned with the Viet Nam War and Watergate. At a party in 1975, he and a childhood friend, Andrew Daulton Lee, then 22, devised a scheme to sell information to the Soviets. Lee made the first contact at the Soviet embassy in Mexico City, and over the next year and a half collected more than $60,000 for his troubles. Boyce made less: approximately $15,000. They were...
Hooray for fun-loving, High School Dropout Cornelia Guest! However, it should be noted that many debutantes have gone on to become lawyers, journalists, educators, businesswomen and civic leaders. Let's not be too eager to sell the American debt short...
...Kennedy Dropout...
DIED. Salvador Sánchez, 23, World Boxing Council featherweight champion and one of the sport's best fighters; of injuries after his Porsche 928 collided with two trucks; just north of Querétaro, Mexico. A school dropout at 16, Sanchez once explained, "I found out that I liked hitting people, and I didn't like school, so I started boxing." A peppery tactician, he wore opponents down for late-round knockouts. His record: 43-1-1. "I'd like to step down undefeated," he said last month. "I'm only 23 and I have...