Word: illness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to a review of the minority recruitment activities for 1987-'88, the reason for a centralized review of minority applications is that "it has been established that minorities sometimes submit ill-prepared applications which hinder their admission...Fine tuning of their application was suggested when appropriate...
...Bridget and Tom Hotchkiss of Evanston, Ill., who returned in July from a slow-moving car trip to the Maryland shore with their sons Tommy, 6, and Patrick, 3, vow never to do it again. Says Bridget: "Ever since we got home, the boys have been playing a new game. They get out all their big trucks and all their cars. I hear them saying, 'Let's play Traffic...
...Despite efforts to upgrade the math skills of U.S. students, a recent survey indicates that nearly half of American 17-year-olds cannot perform simple calculations that are normally learned in junior high school. Other surveys have documented equally dreary student performance in reading, writing and critical thinking. So ill equipped is the current crop of high school graduates that U.S. corporations spend $25 billion a year for remedial * training programs for new employees on whom state, local and federal agencies have already lavished $130 billion in an attempt to teach them to read, write and cipher...
...dirty trickster. In truth, Sasso's misdeeds were exaggerated by the Goody Two Shoes moralism of the early Democratic contests. The Biden videotape merely coupled the Senator's public words with those of his rhetorical twin, British Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock. A more serious breach was Sasso's ill-advised effort to keep the truth about his role from Dukakis. But there is a long political tradition of forgiving transgressions -- especially when the candidate doing the forgiving suddenly finds himself lagging in the polls...
...Rhone-Poulenc is carrying out a controversial test in which it paid 25 college students as much as $1,500 for one week to harvest a central California vineyard that had been sprayed with Zolone. Since the picking was concluded two weeks ago, none of the students have become ill...