Word: eight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Malaysia. Now he's an honors student at the local junior high, while Michael has become a computer whiz with his sights set on Princeton. Meanwhile, Joe Mazzafro is applying his methods to Brandon, 9, his third adopted son, who tumbled through nine foster homes in his first eight years. When he joined the family last year, he was so anxious to please that he was constantly hopping up to get things for his prospective father -- a drink of water, a napkin, anything. "Finally I told him that he wasn't going anywhere but here," says Mazzafro. "He was here...
...pregnancy, her drug abuse probably did not extend to crack. Even so, when Rick and Mary Hibbard brought him into their home in Long Beach, Calif., he was a nine-month-old veteran of pneumonia, bronchitis and asthma, so white from anemia he was "almost iridescent," recalls Rick. Now eight, Jimmy still has trouble with some motor skills. But he has demonstrated above-average reading ability...
CHEMICAL WEAPONS. Bush offered to destroy 80% of the 30,000-ton U.S. arsenal in eight years if the Soviets reduce their 50,000-ton stockpile to the same level. Shevardnadze upped the ante by proposing that the superpowers unilaterally wipe out their stocks and cease all chemical-weapons production...
...recently as 1983, only eight states allowed full-time staff teachers to be hired without an undergraduate degree in education or classroom experience. Now 23 states have eased training and certification requirements, considered by many to be the most formidable and unnecessary barrier to attracting teaching talent. The result has been an influx of military retirees and career switchers from other professions -- some 2,500 in all during the 1987-88 school year. These recruits have helped reduce teacher shortages and have reinvigorated the classroom. Last spring Bush proposed $25 million in grants to encourage other states to follow suit...
Unfortunately, eight of the 16 team members returned to Cambridge Saturday evening, leaving Harvard undermanned for Sunday's competition. Even so, the Crimson managed to defeat Vassar, 15-10, to reach the final four...