Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Judge Harvey Fort of Carlsbad, N.M. announced Saturday that he had sentenced a woman convicted of shooting her husband to student life because it was less expensive to send criminals to college than to jail...
...like to send them to Harvard," Fort said of other felons who cross his path, presumably those who already have impressive SAT scores or extensive student council experience...
...Fort Lauderdale...
...such a bill awaiting the Governor's signature, and New York is considering similar legislation. In the summer of 1981, Fairfax County, Va., became the first district to levy a tuition charge (starting at $3,000 per student) on federally connected dependents living at the Army's Fort Belvoir. The Justice Department filed suit to block the move, but the crisis was defused when Congress passed a continuing budget allocation. That same allocation also made a suit in York County, Va., moot. But many observers believe that if the Reagan Administration continues to cut the Impact Aid budget...
...amazing variety of goods goes to market these days identified either directly or by insinuation as natural, or as nature's, or as conducive to naturalness. Bloomingdale's, that barometer of with-itness, features jeans made of "natural stonewashed denim." Golden Key Creations of Fort Worth urges customers: "Be pure, natural, beautiful with Vitamin E cream!" Breeder's Choice Pet Foods has launched a new line of "all natural" dog food, which is the regular line bereft of additives, and Weleda, Inc., of Spring Valley, N.Y., sells "an all-natural, non-aerosol spray deodorant." Bootstrap Press...