Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vulnerable and often semiliterate students. The report lays nearly half the Government's $1.6 billion student-loan default burden on the doorsteps of such institutions. Many of the schools, which currently enroll 1.3 million students, have dropout rates in excess of 50% and loan-default rates to match. "The kids are left without an education and with no job," says Bennett, "and the taxpayer ends up holding the bag for a kid who gets cheated...
...momentary thaw (one of Calgary's snow-eating chinooks) melted the town three days before fledgling Figure Skater Robyn Perry got up on her toes to reach the Olympic cauldron. Two years short of the competitors' minimum age, the local whiz kid represented youth's considerable promise; also, bravery. A week earlier, before the thermometer shot from 11 degrees below to 45 degrees and back to 21 degrees again, the Olympic torch blew up spectacularly. Engineers called it a "minor malfunction," but Perry may have wished for a longer handle...
...this "kid invasion" also has its benefits for the members of the team...
...kind of flattering to see these kids all wide-eyed waiting for you," Harvard Captain Steve Armstrong said. "It's kind of fun when a kid asks for an autograph...
...main lights are off and the stands are empty. But behind one section there's a small kid holding a hockey stick that's taller than he is. His hockey puck is a styrofoam cup. And he tries his hardest to keep the puck moving, dreaming, perhaps, of being at center ice, with the crowd roaring above...