Word: high
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official acknowledged, Baker is having a difficult time competing with Gorbachev's high-profile diplomacy. The Soviet leader is withdrawing Soviet troops from Afghanistan and has offered to remove six tank divisions and 50,000 men from Eastern Europe...
Cleary grew up here, went to high school at nearby Belmont Hill and starred at Harvard. In the 1955 Beanpot, he scored seven goals, capturing the tournament MVP Award...
Unless rejected by both houses of Congress, the raise, recommended by a salary-review commission composed of wealthy Washington insiders, will automatically go into effect this week. But last week Wright, who had steadfastly refused to schedule a vote on the pay increase for Congress, judges and other high-ranking Government officials, tried to turn the thermostat down a notch. He conducted his own confidential poll of House members -- with results startlingly different from those obtained by news organizations. Nearly 60% of the lawmakers told Wright they wanted the raise to go through without a vote. Polls in which members...
...move into the classroom. When Tom Carlyle decided to become a teacher, he quit his job as a manager in a Manhattan publishing firm and invested $10,000 in a one-year program for career changers at Harvard's School of Education. Since 1986, he has been teaching high school math in the New York City public schools. His $30,000 salary is $5,000 less than he made in the private sector -- but $9,000 more than he would have made teaching math five years ago. Carlyle, 39, has no regrets. "Getting these kids through high school is much...
...recruits end up teaching college courses, the most prestigious positions in the educational system, but most enter at the elementary or high school level. For some, the long hours, the strains of work and the drop in pay and prestige can be sobering. "If you tell somebody you are a chemical engineer for Exxon, that's great," says Nancy Pfeil, 29, who left such a job in 1985 to teach high school calculus. "But if you say you are a high school teacher, they just...