Word: local
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they were with overdosed and were treated by paramedics. The students also told me that while they take complete responsibility for their actions, however stupid, the atmosphere on campuses is very beer-friendly. Anyone can get a keg, they say, or find someone of legal age who will. The local bars card them, "but that's a joke." They drink, they say, because they want to. They overdrink because they don't know any better...
...public eye--even halfway around the world to New Zealand to meet with SIR EDMUND HILLARY. The White House has penciled in a meeting with the Mount Everest conqueror, 80, a living legend in his homeland and probably the most famous New Zealander ever (his face even graces the local $5 bill), during Clinton's state visit next week following the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Auckland. Sir Edmund won't, however, meet the Rodham Clinton Hillary, who is staying home. The White House insists that New York Senate politics has nothing to do with the get-together. Rather...
Nowadays, nearly all home-schooling families belong to one or more of a growing number of local support networks, which organize field trips, soccer teams, even orchestras. Though some educators are worried that these families are opting out of a common society, others note that private schools and even some public ones can be just as insular...
...where the majority of parents really feel the Internet's influence on their child's education at the everyday level," says Jonathan Carson, chairman and ceo of the Family Education Co., based in Boston, which offers an informational parenting website at familyeducation.com and a framework for local schools to create and maintain their own sites...
...skirts and pants, in classic, comfortable styles. Jayne White, an education professor at Missouri's Drury College, believes that young people cannot appear to be "walking robots--they need to keep some identity of their own." The clothes should be made by various companies and be available in many local stores in a wide price range. With the help of community groups and fund raisers, your school should be able to provide uniforms to families who cannot afford them and to keep some on hand at school for days when students turn up out of uniform...