Word: gail
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...school like New York City's Morningside Montessori, for children 22 months and up, parents at an evening meeting reflected a measure of anxiety as they traded strategies for their offspring's imminent step into the best possible elementary schools. Some had applied to four or five. Gail Zimmerman, 41, who had visited twelve schools before deciding where to apply for her four-year-old daughter, advised, "Hang out at the school around dismissal time, so you can see who picks the kids up. Is it a chauffeur? A baby sitter? The child's mother?" And she suggested keeping...
...state has set up eight sites where concerned people can undergo anonymous testing for the virus, said public health spokesman Gail Jackson. Since March 1985, more than 1750 people have come in for testing, and 13 percent of them tested positive for the virus, she said...
Burke's friend Taaka Awori also delivered a speech of her memories of the upstate New York native. Michelle Webb, another one of Burke's friends, read the poem "Slow me down, Lord!" by Gail Bishop...
...first bewilderment and loneliness mark immigrant women's lives. "You often see Hispanic men sitting in a bar at night or playing dominoes outside. Women don't have that," says Gail Lerner, an administrative officer for the World Council of Churches. "Isolation is great. The extended family, the neighbors they depended on in their home country are gone. I'm not talking about kaffeeklatsches, but physical and moral support." Immigrant women also suffer the frustration of being regarded at home as fringe contributors, when in reality their wages are almost always essential to the family's survival. Some immigrant women...
...familiar advertisement calls for "a few good men," but the Marine Corps manages to lure some pretty good women as well. Last week a Marine promotion board recommended the advancement of Colonel Gail Reals to brigadier general. A career officer with 30 years' experience, Reals, 49, is the first woman Marine to reach the one-star rank since the corps integrated its male and female ranks in 1981. After Senate confirmation, she will join eleven other female generals and admirals serving in the armed forces...