Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SUGAR by Alec Wilkinson (Knopf; $18.95). Every winter roughly 10,000 West Indian men come to harvest sugarcane by hand in South Florida. The author, a staff writer for the New Yorker, decided to see how these migrants earn their pay and came back with a story more bitter than sweet...
...average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test have remained flat and the dropout rate high. Critics maintain that real learning has been stifled. "Teachers are teaching to the test," says John Moore, chairman of the education department at San Antonio's Trinity University. Some South Carolinians, on the other hand, feel that their three-hour high school exit exam in reading, writing and math -- which for the first time will be required for a diploma this academic year -- has already had a salutary effect. "Students are taking it seriously and studying," says Robert Paskel, a state education monitor. One worry...
Columbia's hot hand these days is in TV production, where it is a leading producer of network series. The studio has eleven such programs in production, including Who's the Boss? and Designing Women. The division has a library of 23,000 TV episodes from which Sony can pick candidates for syndication and videocassette sales. Columbia also owns the 820-screen Loew's theater chain...
...example, the New York State law specified at least 400 members as one of the characteristics of a public accommodation. On the other hand, if graduates are non-members, then they allegedly have an extensive involvement with the club...
...first set, the Crimson burst out to a 10-3 lead and seemed to have everything well in hand. Co-captain Shossberger taught Lowell how a proper kill is executed, Harvard style, on three separate occasions during the set. The setter for some of those kills was a valiant Burger, who played the game with a hurt and heavily bandaged chin...