Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Universities that welcome all manner of oddball groups on campus actively seek to curb these evangelists. Critics mail out booklets and tapes denouncing them. Some defectors -- who number half the converts since 1979 -- charge that the church has done them psychological or spiritual harm. Many are crying "cult," although dropout Rick Bauer thinks "authoritarian sect" is a better label...
...campaign's three stars coincides with a blurring of the ideologies that have long divided Britain. The opposition Labour Party of Neil Kinnock, the Welsh laborer's son, has struggled to shed the albatross of radical socialism. Now the ruling Conservatives of Prime Minister John Major, the school dropout, are patching up the social safety nets scorned by Margaret Thatcher's survivalism of the fittest. With much less to choose between the two main parties, chances are good that neither will end up with a House of Commons majority...
Votes for undecided or for minor or dropout candidates accounted for the balance of the Among them was former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, getting 3 percent of the Republican vote in Michigan...
...Since 1976, black Scholastic Aptitude Test scores have increased by a greater percentage than those of either whites or Asians. Still, blacks have higher truancy rates, and in spite of the gains, the test scores of African Americans remain the lowest among large ethnic groups. The high school dropout rate among young blacks averages 7.7%, nearly twice that of their white peers...
...Miss Universe contest (finding rhymes for "Latvia" and "Cypriot" must surely qualify as an Olympic-style suicide mission). During the ensuing pageantry, classical romanticism was offset with futuristic whimsy. The air of playful modernity, dreamed up by Philippe Decoufle, a 30- year-old high school dropout who talks of getting ideas while asleep, conjured up a Mademoiselle France who was fresh, lighthearted and a little bit spacy...