Word: highes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Ackermann was mayor in 1972, a 16-year-old high-school dropout named Larry Largey was found dead in a police cell. A police autopsy claimed he died of a drug overdose. City activists claimed he was beaten to death by the police...
...spring morning, dozens of Europeans and Asians line up for excursions through Harlem, which sprawls northward from the top of Central Park for about 50 blocks. They gasp at the area's high and low life and attend a joyful church service. Typically, few of the tourists are black; fewer are New Yorkers. On a recent trip, one of these few spoke with a librarian at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and was complimented on his good English. When the downtowner asked if many New Yorkers took such tours, the librarian smiled: "Honey, you're about...
...name it, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has an opinion, which he will give you with great certainty at high speed. There has never been a Surgeon General like him, not even Luther Terry, who slapped warnings on cigarette packs 24 years ago. It's a fair guess that Terry was never air-kissed by Elizabeth Taylor, the butt of jokes in Johnny Carson's monologue, was never a visitor to the set of Golden Girls, and never lectured Hollywood producers about showing safe sex in their programs. Antismoking is a small part of Koop's crusade; AIDS, child abuse...
...martinis keeps him from losing his paunch, pronounced the U.S. a country of fatsoes who would have to give up cholesterol in favor of fiber. When Koop found out that the tobacco companies had fought hardest over the years against the Government's calling nicotine addictive, he stated high up in his Surgeon General's report that nicotine is addictive. "They absolutely hated it," he gloats. He said the companies' claims that science cannot say with certainty that tobacco causes cancer were "flat-footed lies" and that sending cigarettes to the Third World was "the export of death, disease...
...first two years of instruction to meet the woeful inadequacies of our public school system. We cannot afford to relegate 50% of the university's time and resources to remedial work . . . The universities in two years cannot do justice to twelve years of neglect in learning. We are our high schools' keepers. The nation must take preventive measures to reform, strengthen and in some instances rescue our high school system...