Word: holland
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Establishing clear rules is priority No. 1 for many of these principals. Albert Holland, who turned Jeremiah E. Burke High in Boston from one of the city's most dangerous schools into what District Superintendent Charles Gibbons calls an "absolute jewel," began with this set of rules: "In class on time; no hats; no Walkman in school; a student roaming the corridors without a pass is written up immediately and given a warning." His neighbor, Principal O'Neill at Lewenberg, set up equally simple standards. "The first order was to maintain control of the hallways, so we put in quiet...
...districts are trying to salvage pupils with alternative opportunities, either inside the schools or outside in other facilities. Two years ago Burke Principal Holland in Boston instituted a program called Lifeline for students who are repeating ninth or tenth grade. Three separate classrooms at Burke house some 45 repeaters, who study three core subjects -- English, math and science -- for longer than usual periods. They move only among those three rooms, switching classes at intervals different from the rest of the school. "It is a mechanism so that we don't put 19-year-olds in ninth-grade classrooms next...
...Currency Trader Randall Holland, the first working day of 1988 started last Monday with an urgent 2 a.m. phone call from Tokyo. Jolted out of bed, Holland, who works for Wall Street's Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, listened groggily as an excited colleague in Japan reported that the U.S. dollar was moving in a sharp and startling new direction: upward. Skeptical of the currency's mysterious strength, Holland gave orders to sell part of the firm's dollar holdings, then went back to sleep. At 4 a.m. the phone jangled again. This time it was a London colleague calling to report...
...Holland was right. "They" -- the central bankers of the world's industrial countries -- were launching a major surprise mission to rescue the dollar from its perilous slide. The Federal Reserve and other central bankers intervened by unleashing a flood of orders to trade Japanese yen, West German marks and other denominations for the dollar. The strategy worked stunningly, sending traders scrambling to move in the same direction. Said Holland: "You don't make money by challenging the Fed. You could get squished trying to do that...
Theme cruises are among the most popular attractions. The Seattle-based Holland America line offers a voyage for fans of Big Band music, which last year featured concerts by Patty Andrews of the Andrews Sisters and Nanette Fabray. Norwegian Cruise Line has organized a magic-act voyage and several sports cruises in which passengers mingle with star athletes. Other trips have been designed specifically for chocolate lovers, wine tasters, backgammon players and country-music fans...