Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston, an urban FM might break the city's unending complacency on racial issues. To take just one example, school busing has been almost entirely phased out, nothing has been put in its place, and nary a whimper of protest has been heard in the past decade. While Jam'n may insist that "the party never stops," the party never started for the Hub's minority children. It is this cycle of complacency that I want to escape; wherever I live next year I hope that it has the type of black musical presence that is both engaging...
...homework crunch is heard loudest in the country's better middle-class school districts, where parents push their kids hard and demand that teachers deliver enough academic rigor to get students into top secondary schools and colleges. Now there's a blowback: the sheer quantity of nightly homework and the difficulty of the assignments can turn ordinary weeknights into four-hour library-research excursions, leave kids in tears and parents with migraines, and generally transform the placid refuge of home life into a tense war zone. "The atmosphere in the house gets very frustrated," says Lynne O'Callaghan...
...several semesters now, we've heard nary a mew from the administration about holding exams before winter break and starting school a little earlier. Dartboard loudly roars for this change--or else we say, give us a week every year...
Kennesh II. Ahn '00, an A.D. member, said members first heard about the policy change two nights...
Contacted last night, Rev. Douglas W. Sears'69, president of the Interclub Council, said hehad not yet heard of the policy shift butexpressed support...