Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...places at once. Later, when I reached the Age of Math Class, I found this skill invaluable. While my eyes never left Miss Robinson's face, I was quite decidedly somewhere else. But after many years of such duality, not to mention of crumbs in my pajamas and an idea that a fraction's denominator was utterly superfluous, I decided to put an end to my double living. I could only be in one locale at any given point in time, I told myself. Like most bad habits, however, this one lurked around the outskirts of my consciousness, just waiting...
...both Clayton and Vega, the issue is clear-cut. A majority of the kids in the program face "skill-barriers" as well as language barriers. The idea of the program to help them gain skills that are transferable. "How are you ever going to get a kid to read Shakespeare if he can't read Cervantes," asks Clayton. "The overwhelming majority [of the Spanish-speaking students] can't write a coherent well-punctuated sentence in Spanish...
...About the race--they started the race back in 1965. HP: Yeah, actually it was a pretty unpretentious beginning. When they did it, I think those people were a little skeptical about the event, because there had never been such an event here in this country. I thing the idea came from a coach who had coached in England where Head races were pretty well established. And people who came to the boat club decided that it would be a fun thing to have a fall race, and took the trouble to organize it. And it happened, and turns...
Bradley, a candidate who has struggled to prove his viability against a well-funded front-runner like Gore, also wants to overhaul campaign financing, Shannon said. His idea, Shannon added, is to require broadcasters to set aside time for candidates in the weeks before elections...
...People had all kinds of bizarre ideas," Oldfield said. "My idea was "Yale Today...