Word: exited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every Monday evening, like clockwork, they begin their odyssey home to Exit 37B (just completed six years ago) and to their living rooms to watch the news of violence and mayhem in the city they left in spirit long ago. "Those poor people. To have to live there...
...other educational news, Boston's SAT scores remained well below the national average, the Boston Schools Committee died after a multi-year coma, and Mayor Flynn finally appointed a new superintendent. She promptly told the press that she wouldn't rule out a quick exit if Boston's schools didn't show immediate improvement. "I'm fiercely protective of my career," she said...
...other educational news, Boston's SAT scores remained well below the national average, the Boston Schools Committee died after a multi-year coma, and Mayor Flynn finally appointed a new superintendent. She promptly told the press that she wouldn't rule out a quick exit if Boston's schools didn't show immediate improvement. "I'm fiercely protective of my career," she said...
...Congress passed legislation withholding MFN from the Soviet Union in an attempt to induce Leonid Brezhnev to permit more Jews to emigrate. Largely to spite the U.S., Brezhnev cut exit visas for Jews by nearly two-thirds. Then, in 1980, the U.S. granted MFN to China. Beijing's treatment of its citizens was hardly exemplary, but its defiance of Moscow made it a "strategic partner" of the West...
...book, Final Exit, is a manual for committing suicide or helping someone else to do so. It includes charts of lethal dosages for 18 prescription drugs, primarily pain killers and sleeping tablets; it debates and debunks the merits of cyanide; it offers abundant practical advice about asphyxiation by plastic bag or auto exhaust. Seemingly every detail is addressed: mixing pills with yogurt or pudding so that the patient does not vomit or pass out before ingesting a lethal amount; not turning off the telephone or message machine, because "any changes will only alert callers to something unusual happening"; having family...