Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clear-eyed, strong, giving off a kind of energy, like athletes. It seemed to him that for them the whole thing had been a sort of game. And there they went, jogging away in step, knees high, heads up, shoulder to shoulder like some Damon and Pythias of the inner city. The householder remembered that stride himself. It had carried him across the playing fields of youth after he had been lucky enough to score a goal. For that matter, these two, with their fine jackets and high-stepping pace, looked as carefree as his son and a friend heading...
...hand, that flat rule regulations raised all the usual hue and cry about standardized tests' imprecision and inherent unfairness; the rule dis-criminatex against inner-city students whose vocabularies were different, against students from poorer families, and so forth. But the more pressing problem turned out to be one of mere practicality. So many students failed to pass seventh grade that the already crowded facilities became almost useless; and a substantial number of students, though tested several years in a row, failed to pass. The presence of 17- and 18-year-old seventh-graders was a dramatic condemnation...
...transform it into a modern, effective instrument of the party. He succeeded on both counts." What the security operation lost in brute force it more than made up in political power under Andropov. In 1973, he was granted full membership on the Politburo, the Central Committee's ruling inner circle...
...office showplace on Detroit's river front, which was to be the centerpiece of its urban renewal, defaulted two weeks ago and is still up for sale (asking price: $275 million, down from $500 million last spring). One bright spot in a dreary year: a revival in the inner city, with old office buildings being transformed into condominium apartments. Says Developer Max Fisher, who has invested in a $77 million apartment complex on the Detroit River: "To make downtown shopping viable, we need to have people living there...
...first computer books, like Adam Osborne's 1975 classic, Introduction to Microcomputers (Osborne/McGraw-Hill; $12.50), were aimed at computer hobbyists, explaining the inner workings of the hardware down to the smallest transistor. These were quickly followed by books of software programs, like the popular BASIC Computer Games (Workman; $7.95), which provide page after page of prewritten computer codes that the reader can copy and run on his own machine. Now, as the domain of computer buyers expands, the bestsellers tend to be either step-by-step guides for new users, usually geared to specific machines, or introductory texts like McWilliams...