Word: learns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After eight weeks of being exposed to people from all over the world with backgrounds wildly different from mine, I began to learn that there was some-thing beyond the sleepy New England suburb I grew...
...ostensible purpose at the summer school, I really didn't learn much from my coursework at all. I never made an effort to go to my professors' office hours or delve into the ideas beyond the normal coursework. Looking back, I lost out by not approaching my professors because Summer School faculty are usually very accessible...
...fight to repel the intruder. In a three-page "Dear Mr. Davis" letter, Munro chastised the Paramount chairman for breaking his spoken agreement to leave Time alone: "On a personal level, I'm disappointed that I can't rely on you as a man of your word. Live and learn." Munro said the Paramount offer consisted of "smoke and mirrors," since it was subject to several conditions that included Paramount's ability to obtain financing and regulatory approval, a process almost certain to take longer than the Time-Warner proposition had. Such conditions, Munro argued, could...
...fire. "It seems once again that it is a matter of incompetence, irresponsibility, mismanagement," the grim and angry President told the Congress. "It was nothing less than a shameful outrage. There will be no progress in this country if we have such laxness." Gorbachev then exhorted his listeners to "learn hard lessons from what happened." Last week in the Soviet Union, there was no shortage of hard lessons...
...Some schools have begun offering special courses in preventing violence. A ten-session curriculum, designed by Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, the Massachusetts commissioner of public health, is being used in several high schools in Boston, Detroit and Denver. "We tell them anger is potentially constructive but they need to learn how to handle it," explains Prothrow-Stith. Students examine how fights begin and analyze videotapes of arguments...