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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Second, your story stated that Lester P. Lee, Jr. "ran" my 1988 campaign. This is incorrect. Lee was one of a number of people in the district who played a role in my victory, but my campaign was run by my campaign manager, Francis Stone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Representative Responds | 2/20/1990 | See Source »

...given subject and design a test for it. That still leaves room for states and school districts to determine how material is taught. Besides, local control has hardly proved to be a miracle drug for improving educational levels. "Local school districts don't have incentives to work hard," says Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. "I'm not worried about too much authority. I worry about too little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...Those of us involved in the effort to get out Saundra Graham as a state rep. had no illusions. We felt he would be a representative and he has been," says Lester P. Lee Jr., who ran Thompson's 1988 campaign...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: A Year After Victory, Thompson Faces Opposition | 2/6/1990 | See Source »

...about foods and imply some therapeutic benefit from specific brands. The USDA has banned use of the seal on meat products, including frozen dinners and entrees. "The program would have set up the idea of good foods and bad foods, and there is no scientific support for that," says Lester Crawford of the USDA. "There are good diets and bad diets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: The Good Food-Picking Seal | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

When tenor saxophonist Lester Young became one of Billie's close friends, he enlongated her moniker to "Lady Day", and she in turn stuck him with the nickname "Pres", after President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Musically, Young and Holiday were kindred spirits, for they both were small on tone but overwhelmed with their expression and musical interpretations. *confusing...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: Lady's Day | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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