Word: forget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inner city, teachers sometimes forget what a real classroom is like. Learning falls to the back of the scene. Talking, throwing--education becomes a big food fight," says tutor Peter J. Freed '90, who attended an urban public high school in New Haven, Conn., and says he hopes to spend the summer tutoring in the Connecticut prison system. "For a lot of these people, they've never had a teacher interested in them as an individual rather than as someone who should shut...
...Forget the Reagan nonsense that requiring notification of plant closings would unnecessarily handicap American industry and endanger jobs. The provision would merely require that companies notify workers before laying off more than 500 of them, or one-third of their employees. Both West Germany and Japan have even stricter laws, and their competitiveness has not suffered...
...Forget about Marguerite Higgins, Mary Welsh Hemingway or the shoulder-padded heroines whom Rosalind Russell used to play in the movies. Those female legends of the '30s and '40s may have been superwomen, but consider the perfections of Claudia Hampton, war correspondent, popular historian, prized sexual partner to many men. (Claudia is also a terrible mother, but that seems to go with the territory...
...Soviet army, Demjanjuk apparently became a guard after being captured by the Nazis. Vivid testimony came from eight Jews who survived the Treblinka horrors. Demjanjuk's lawyers argued that a survivor could not reliably remember events that occurred so long ago. Responded Presiding Judge Dov Levin: "How could one forget...
...sized mutant mice rampaging through America's cities may sound ridiculous, but it is irrational fears such as this that the staff falls prey to. The staff would halt scientists from using genetically-engineered animals until a morality discussion between Congress and the general public could take place. They forget that this would delay research into our deadliest disease, cancer, and the discovery of a cure that could save many lives...