Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles remembers the lonely hours he spent being tutored at Buck House and did not want the same for his son. Every morning, with a small flask filled with fresh orange juice, Wills trots off to Mrs. Mynors' nursery school, a terraced Victorian house in the multiracial Notting Hill section of London...
...says of it, "If one has to have a McDonald's in one's neighborhood, this is probably the best one. They've done a magnificent job appearance-wise." His wife Barbara doesn't mind the look of the place either. However, the McDonald's is just down the hill from their old and handsome house, and she says, "When the wind is right, I can smell the grease...
...With the deft touch of political prestidigitators, Italian party leaders last week made a government crisis disappear as if it had never happened. Two weeks after Prime Minister Bettino Craxi had marched up Rome's Quirinal Hill to present his resignation to Italy's President Francesco Cossiga over his handling of the Achille Lauro hijacking, Craxi returned to reclaim his place as leader of his five-party ruling coalition. The President and the four other coalition partners decided to consider Craxi's resignation provisional, thereby allowing the same government with the same policies to continue. After an expected vote...
...Symms observed, "They were cheering, but it was for him, not for tax reform." Various polls indicate public apathy on the proposal despite general support for the idea of tax reform, and Congressmen of both parties are expressing skepticism. As a radical budget-balancing bill dominates debate on Capitol Hill, tax reform appears to be dead for 1985--and perhaps beyond...
...place. At the University of Michigan's flagship Ann Arbor campus, the grades and personal records of top high school recruits are carefully checked. No blatant jock courses are offered, and close to 80% of football lettermen have received their diplomas. At the University of North Carolina's Chapel Hill campus, basketball players must sit out one game for every class cut. Duke University for many years has allowed no appeals by coaches on its strictly academic admissions standards, and Notre Dame combines tough entrance requirements with close monitoring of academic performance. Both of the latter two schools have recorded...