Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge School Committee last night refused to approve a plan creating an alternative dropout prevention school for students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School...
Rather than approve the recommendation--which culminated nearly six months of research by Principal Edward R. Harrison and longtime school teacher William Toomey--the board referred the bill to a joint meeting of the district's dropout prevention and school safety committees...
...dropout prevention program would have taken 15 recent dropouts from Cambridge's Rindge and Latin High School and placed them in a separate school where they would receive individualized instruction, counseling and guidance, Harrison said...
...joys of nouveau low-income food, in its ever more wanton and promiscuous forms -- fries topped with melted cheese spread, nachos topped with everything, burritos buried in sour cream and guacamole! Not to mention flavors unheard of a generation ago -- honey mustard (what deranged home-ec dropout thought that one up?), ranch, jalapeno. Of course, there isn't much alternative if you live in a ghetto where the nearest supermarket is likely to be a bus ride away and the only accessible food source is Store...
...Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity by Neal Gabler (Knopf). Walter Winchell would have sent Rush Limbaugh out for coffee. Doubters among the uninstructed young are invited to read biographer Gabler's superb, richly detailed portrait of the grade-school dropout and vainglorious, third-rate ex-hoofer who, more than any other gossipist, invented the modern celebrity industry. His syndicated "colyums" and brassy, red-baiting broadcasts to "Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea" shaped U.S. lowbrow culture for the 1930s and '40s. When he died unlamented in 1972, Winchell was a lonely and bilious...