Word: homework
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have more to do before dinner, but then they [her entrymates not enrolled in the dance program] have more homework," explains Dewitt. "Everybody's got all this work to do and we don't have any." She adds that sometimes when she and her friends in the dance program want to go out, their friends in academic classes can't join them...
...turkey to the beat of a Merle Haggard cassette. The sideboards groan with jars of jelly beans, Tootsie Rolls and beef jerky from the shop that her father Bob manages in a nearby office building. Molly's brother Kelly, 19, has cleared space on the kitchen table to do homework for his computer studies at the local community college. Beth, 21, is in the back of the house washing her blond hair. The whole place scans like Steven Spielberg's idea of suburban paradise...
Pulling an Allnighter has a certain macho mystique that transcends the methodical regularity of daily trips to the library. It's homework with flair, the difference between slipping down the waterslide into the kiddie pool and roaring off Niagara Falls in a barrel; between strolling along the Freedom Trail and sauntering through the Combat Zone carrying an envelope stamped "BANK WITHDRAWAL...
...learning titled What Works, he was panned by professional educators who said much of the pamphlet was "common sense." Bennett hardly noticed. "The President loved it," he said, then galloped off joyously, his briefcase stuffed with copies of What Works. (What does work: parents' reading to young children, memorizing, homework...
...leave many consumers befuddled. IRA ads often bristle with hype or technical jargon. Says Donald Underwood, vice president of retirement planning at Merrill Lynch, which holds 1.4 million IRAs: "Consumers are overwhelmed by the variety because there's a lot of smoke out there. They have to do their homework...