Word: helped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wanted to yell bravely to the two guys, "Who do you think I am, the Incredible Hulk?" Instead, I said, "Help...
Economists have been hoping that a modest slowdown would help ease another thorny problem, the U.S. trade deficit, by suppressing the American appetite for imported goods. So far, that has not happened. The Government announced last week that the trade deficit swelled to $10.2 billion in May, up from $8.3 billion in April. Especially troubling was a 4.3% rise in imports, to a record $40.7 billion, which suggested that foreign brand names remain a powerful enticement for U.S. shoppers...
...schools will be allowed to function for a limited 17-week term, ending in late November. If any school becomes a focus for violence during that time, it may be shut down. It is likely that classes will meet in two shifts of only four hours each, which could help to minimize that possibility...
...consequence of the hiatus, there are now three times as many first- graders as usual, from those who should have completed their first year in 1988 to those just starting this year. To help unclog the system, U.N. relief workers have developed a "crash course" for Grades 1 through 6 that crams a full 32-week school year into 20 weeks or less in order to advance as many children as quickly as possible...
...have spent the idle months caught up in the intifadeh, | congregating on street corners instead of in classrooms. "My first challenge will be trying to make my students act and behave like students and not like rebels," says Ramadan, a teacher in Hebron, just 20 miles from Jerusalem. To help promote order, the Israeli army has promised to stay clear of school grounds. But few Palestinians trust the military to keep its word; fewer still expect the reopening of West Bank schools to occur without incident. Says a twelfth-grader named Salem: "How can I forget my schoolmates who were...