Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...core idea is quite simple," said Robert P. Wolff '54, co-director of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Humanities at UMass, Amherst. "The disastrous dropout of Hispanic and Afro-Americans begins in 8th grade, so if you recruit 12th graders, many are lost...
...tabled at first-year and upperclassregistration, and so we got a lot of sign-ups,"Wexler said. "Of course, some people might dropout, but I don't think they will...
...women saw their relationship as a chance to turn around misdirected lives. Sharon, a high school dropout, works part time as a cashier at a Winn- Dixie supermarket. April, a recovering alcoholic who served in the military, manages a deli. They dreamed of buying a house, settling into middle-class stability. They hoped, one day, to give Tyler a younger sister or brother born to April by artificial insemination. Now they feel that all their dreams, and much of their sense of family, are "on hold." The loss is all the more painful because the "parent" who challenged them...
...pawnshop and buy a handgun as easily as I did, I wouldn't have robbed that bank. That applies to just about everybody in this prison who ever held up anybody. Nobody robs a place with a knife or a can of Mace. I was 19, an eighth-grade dropout. If I'd known that things weren't as helpless as I thought they were, that would have stopped me. I wouldn't have felt so frustrated...
Heidi is so proud of her notoriety that it might be impossible for her to remain silent. After all, she worked hard to reach her eminence. A high school dropout, she was 19 when she met big spender Bernie Cornfeld, the financial impresario who in the 1970s was accused and then acquitted of fraud when his $2 billion mutual-fund empire collapsed. Bernie and Heidi were just good friends, so to speak, living it up, jetting around Europe. After they split, Heidi met Nagy, who introduced her to Hollywood brothel-keeper Elizabeth ("Madam Alex") Adams. Heidi said she was merely...