Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gift for Creativity. J.W.T. aims to market 750,000 of its 2,700,000 shares, which are now all held by the agency's executives and its retirement fund. The sale will begin about June, at a price still to be determined. Of these shares, 350,000 will come from the company it self, and 109,709 from the retirement fund, which will still retain the largest block of stock. The rest will come from the firm's officers, who are being asked to sell up to 20% of their holdings for the issue...
...Joyce, Burgess loves to play with words, the greatest of toys allowed to grown men. English is not enough; he can play in Russian, German, Spanish and Malay, and this gives him the insight of a craft-brother to a hundred writers who have little in common but the gift and the love...
Community schools have bolstered community power and education in more tangible ways as well. All of them hire and pay community and parent aides, some as classroom assistants, other as full time teachers. The practice not only brings federal and suburban (gift) money into ghettos, but often encourages uneducated ghetto residents to return to school. The Roxbury Community School offers night courses in which Northeastern and B.U. teachers help parents toward high school diplomas to teacher certification...
...bride. Only her presence permits him to wield the quill of independence. For Jefferson to submit to certain hoary newlywed jokes may have seemed essential for a show as commerce oriented as 1776, but it is scarcely a necessity for the real Thomas Jefferson, a writer by gift and a patriot by vocation...
...that linguists call phonemes, next by linking these bits into words, and finally by making whole sentences. If this were the result of a learning process, argues Bruner, man's grasp would be forever limited by what he has learned to reach. Yet the fact is that the gift of language carries with it the capacity to braid words into sentences that have never been spoken before. Any normal child...