Word: flints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scratch." Within weeks, Allie's manic energy transforms a rank, overgrown clearing into a neat, well-ordered community. As he keeps improving his creation he boasts, "The Iron Age comes ... A month ago, it was the Stone Age ... digging vegetables with wooden shovels and clobbering rats with flint axes. We're moving right along. It'll be 1832 in a few days! By the way, people, I'm planning to skip the 20th century altogether...
...Dort Elementary School in Flint, Mich., 25 Follow Through kindergarten children sit quietly in neat rows working on assignments. At the front of the room the teacher is drilling four children on reading. Imperious, she snaps her fingers to signal for the answer, which the children chorus together. The children seem secure and interested, but they know they will not be asked for an individual response until after the chorus. When it is time to read, they follow a bright red arrow across the page from left to right to remind them that reading is done from left to right...
Vivienne L. Richardson Flint, Mich...
...between--with Chinese flint boxes, fernwood statues and Ashanti artifacts in the window--sits TePaske and Hurst, the art gallery that opened last fall in the building that for 50 years had housed the Gold Coast Laundry...
Dean Hazel, 28, a General Motors worker who has been a leader in the antitax movement, claims that the income tax is unconstitutional (incorrect) and that the Flint IRS office lacks the manpower to prosecute so many tax evaders at once (correct, as even the IRS concedes). But the agency has sent warnings to 1,100 people claiming unusual numbers of dependents. "Terror tactics," scoffs Hazel. "The IRS depends on fear." (Correct.) As of last week almost one-half of those receiving letters had asked their employers to resume the proper withholding...