Word: faired
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colleges say it is a fair exchange: the student athletes get a free education. Some do. But for many -- particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, who often arrive in need of extensive remedial work -- the opportunity to get an education is an illusion. Even the most motivated students would have trouble keeping up academically while practicing as much as 30 hours a week. Many student athletes, moreover, are not primarily interested in getting an education; they see college as a stepping-stone to a lucrative pro career. When Eldridge Hudson graduated from high school in 1982, he was named Player...
...must read the exam aloud and accept oral responses. "There's something wrong with the fact that they arrive here functionally illiterate," steams Carmichael. "It means they were probably treated as a piece of meat somewhere else. What are their chances? Probably 1 in 50. It isn't fair to anybody...
...they deserved execution. In its zeal to help Morris, the Dallas district attorney's office turned over the dusty records from Adams' trial. What Morris found in the boxes was more intriguing than Dr. Death: evidence of a prosecution willing to bend, if not break, the guarantees of a fair trial in its efforts to obtain a conviction. Morris abandoned his original project in order to tell Adams' story in The Thin Blue Line, which won two major film awards and helped Adams finally win his freedom...
...junior government minister. Using her high-level connections, she lands a research job, complete with security clearance, in the House of Commons. In her spare time she may have befriended an alleged Libyan intelligence officer, a cousin of Colonel Gaddafi's. As Professor Henry Higgins exclaimed in My Fair Lady, "How simply frightful! How humiliating! How delightful...
...produce less pollution. A Mono County businessman suggests that the sale of water rights ought to be regulated to prevent profiteering. But here Willey hews to the free-market line: even if the price per acre-foot starts out high, he says, competition will drive it down to a fair level as other irrigation districts try to get in on the action. Beyond that, someone has to pick up the bill for the replacement water. Los Angeles has agreed to pay part of the cost of the pilot project. E.D.F. has committed itself to raising the remainder, partly by lobbying...