Word: homework
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gallatin Hall, a dormitory, which attracts a full house of about 200 B-Schoolers each Friday afternoon after classes. Every Wednesday about 75 students flock to The Pub for a "two-case" night which B-Schoolers say means they spend only six hours on the next day's homework instead of nine. And, there is also an informal "Wednesday night club," which Ambro says was "this big excuse to go drinking with everybody...
...have to be wary of those people from other countries who don exotic clothing and chant anti-American slogans in strange and often annoying languages. I have parties to attend and homework to do. I really don't have time to deal with people who want to see me dead...
...where is a clerk who can give a guiding word about these products? Airlines offer a bonanza of cheap fares, but many travel agents no longer want to be bothered handling such unprofitable business. That leaves consumers on their own, so they have to grab brochures and do their homework if they hope to make a correct decision. To take advantage of consumer advances today requires a tougher and smarter buyer...
...Released studies titled First Lessons and What Works, advocating back-to- basics principles for elementary schools. Says Bennett: "The Chicago school board has adopted a homework policy based on What Works...
...matter how pneumatic and now these misses are, they are never far removed from the maiden in the tower or the girl in the glass slipper, yearning to be rescued from her room and from her medieval homework. To Sara Wilford, director of the Early Childhood Center at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, "it is not so strange that children would find a Barbie doll to be interesting, something they could idealize and put in a Cinderella framework...