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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...verbal questions put to them on a one-to-one basis (last year 13% failed). Many Connecticut and Michigan youngsters face similar tests. But only Georgia asks all its tots -- in both public and private schools -- to sit down, No. 2 pencils in hand, and fill in the blanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Can Kids Flunk Kindergarten? | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

Events took a chilling turn on Saturday when the hijackers, frustrated by Kuwait's refusal to meet their demand, invited three reporters to the top of the gangway leading to the craft and demanded that Algeria "fill the airplane with fuel, and we will liquidate our account with Kuwait elsewhere. We don't want to have the massacre in a friendly country." Added the hooded gunman who addressed the reporters: "Kuwait has to know that we do not fear death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Nightmare on Flight 422 | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...presence of GPSA, T.A.'s at Penn are unlikely to unionize in the near future, Glasker says. The administration at Penn is very anti-union and the large number of people who want to teach would make it "very difficult" to form an effective union because "scabs" would fill any position left vacant in a strike, Glasker says...

Author: By Jesus I. Ramirez, | Title: All Quiet on the Ivy Front: Keeping Students Happy | 4/16/1988 | See Source »

...line has been out the door since we opened this morning, [and] we are expecting even larger crowds on Saturday," said Store Manager Bryan C. Zink yesterday. Even though the store hired extra workers to fill each shift during the birthday celebration. Bruegger's has been unable to keep up with the flow of customers, Zink said...

Author: By Charles D. Cheever, | Title: Bruegger's Anniversary Brings Free Bagels | 4/16/1988 | See Source »

Furthermore, the department is setting out to fill four senior posts and three junior positions by the fall of 1989, says department chairman Brendan A. Maher, Henderson Professor of the Psychology of Personality...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: A Search for Identity | 4/13/1988 | See Source »

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