Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part in May Day demonstrations outside Cracow. Then the State Department struck back by sending four Polish diplomats packing. Last week the Polish government retaliated by cutting off the "Hamburger Specials," flights from Frankfurt that every two months brought in comforts for the U.S. embassy staff, from toothpaste to grade-A ground sirloin, as well as mail and packages from home. The shipments were allowed into Poland without the usual rigorous customs inspection...
...Some things were certain. Theurer had a custom sportfishing boat docked in the marina named the A/C D/C. He is 58. One of the few things he would tell a reporter was that he was raised in New York's Hell's Kitchen and never went past the seventh grade. He has a collection of gold chains. He gave a birthday bash for his wife that featured a stark-naked dancer on the bandstand and a tiered cake with a miniature space shuttle and a model car smashed into the icing on top. This whimsy apparently was reference...
...Kappans were chosen by a committee of alumni, professors and senior members of the society on the basis of grade point averages and faculty references...
...Dinh-Hoa Nguyen, director of the Center for Vietnamese Studies at Southern Illinois University, said Vietnamese culture has been completely replaced with Marxist-Leninist ideology by the current regime. Nguyen said that schoolbooks have been rewritten to promote communist ideology, including a fifth-grade history book that depicts "Americans as cannibalistic." It is the 500,000 Vietnamese refugees living in exile, he said, who are keeping the Vietnamese heritage alive...
...addict, Scott R. Panzer '88, who owns what he calls a "I rash-80," said that he outgrew the video games habit in eleventh grade. "Before I was a social misfit," he said. "As I started to have a better time sociality, I stopped using the computer...