Word: instructing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial, the jury dismissed a murder charge but found Newton guilty of voluntary manslaughter. After he had served 22 months of a two-to 15-year sentence, he won a round: the California Court of Appeals reversed the conviction. It found that the trial judge had failed to instruct the jury that if it believed Newton had been unconscious, it could not find him guilty...
Party cadres still regularly instruct groups of peasants in the cathartic pleasures of "speaking bitterness" about the bad old pre-Mao days. Provincial newspapers and radio stations (about half of China's towns and villages receive broadcasts) blare endless polemics against U.S. imperialists, Soviet revisionists and home-grown "class enemies...
Another possibility is the 50-year-old arrangement of "shared time" or "dual enrollment." In eight states, parochial schools cut their costs by letting their students enroll in public schools for several periods or a half-day each week. There, publicly paid teachers instruct the kids in industrial arts, home economics, physical education and music, and more recently in math, science and foreign languages as well. Communities like Louisville, Ky., and Pittsfield, Mass., send the public teachers directly into parochial-school buildings...
...take over some of the doctors' more routine tasks. One of them is Mrs. Joan Carvajal, 29, of Greeley, Colo., who recently graduated from the University of Colorado medical school's new nurse-practitioner program. She does examinations and preliminary diagnoses for two pediatricians and makes hospital visits to instruct new mothers. "Nurses are asking for more responsibility," she says...
...Students for a Democratic Society, the Progressive Labor Party, and the Radcliffe-Harvard Liberation Alliance be banned from using University facilities because of the role played by some of their members in the disruption of the Teach-in. It is inconceivable to us that this group now presumes to instruct the Harvard community on freedom of speech and freedom of the press...