Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into another Amtrak train, the Shoreliner, en route from Boston to New York City, on a trestle 80 ft. above a shopping district in Queens, N.Y. The crash left Spanish Diplomat Enrique Gilarranz dead and 125 other passengers injured. When an Amtrak train hit a pickup truck at a grade crossing in South Carolina three days later, killing one person, the number of fatal Amtrak accidents in the past month reached five...
...high school students who came to see if they could make the Harvard grade, "Camp Harvard" appears to be all they bargained for--and more...
Ferraro came close to the mark when she spoke of "a sense of new possibilities and pride." A generation ago, for a fifth-grade girl to dream of becoming President was barely thinkable, but last week that was certified as one of the post-Ferraro "new possibilities." As Dr. Carol Nadelson, the Incoming President of the American Psychiatric Association, pointed out, male children will learn the new rules too. "A fifth-grade boy," she says, "also has a view of a woman as being in a kind of role. This change expands his view of women...
Nuclear war is a low-grade chronic dread in the back of the mind, Soviet churlishness a high-grade pain in the neck. And yet some deep though elusive process of healing seems to have occurred over a period of years in the American psychology, and the Fourth of July, 1984, may have been one more expression...
...Daniel Conde Freire, 43, a farmer with a second-grade education, imprisoned in 1963 for speaking out against the Castro regime. Said he: "My main aspiration is to take all of the political prisoners out of Cuban jails and reunite them with their families." Grateful though he was for his release, Conde said of Jackson, "He's making politics, he's looking for votes...