Word: edisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Edison Project, a for-profit group with a new design for American public schools, will achieve significant gains in the academic achievement of students without raising the per student cost, two speakers said yesterday in a Graduate School of Education panel...
Approximately 80 people attended the Longfellow Hall discussion with Deborah M. McGriff, former general superintendent of Detroit public schools, and Stephen C. Tracy, former superintendent of New Milford, Conn. public schools. Both now work for the Edison Project...
When Navarrette spoke at Edison High School inFresno, Calif., last year, Garyun B. Kong '97,then a senior at the school, said he was "booedoff the stage...
...entrepreneurs large and small have seized on VR, hoping to turn Defense Department-bred technology into show-biz profit. Companies from the Hudson River to Tokyo Bay -- the brand names include Paramount Communications, AT&T, Viacom, Sega, Nintendo, Sony, Matsushita, Edison Brothers, Hasbro and Time Warner -- are betting cumulative billions on VR. Christopher Gentile of Abrams/Gentile Entertainment, which is developing a home-VR system in Princeton, New Jersey, predicts virtual game shows by 1996. How about 3-D TV? Shopping by VR? The Home Sex Network? "If someone gets there in the home with the right quality and cost," notes...
...Wonderful" Matt Dillon plays Gus, a New York City electrical worker with Con Edison, and Annabella Sciorra plays his ex-wife Leonora, who left him so she could make something of herself and now attends college. The two have since moved on to other love interests; Leonora, known as Lee, has been seeing her English professor (William Hurt), and Gus has been contemplating moving in with his devoted girl-friend, Rita (Mary Louise Parker) Contact between Gus and Lee is typically unamicable, filled with mutual accusations concerning who brought about the failure of their marriage. Their squabbles can't conceal...