Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...daughters at awkward points in their lives. Cate, headstrong and twice divorced, is approaching her 40th birthday and teaching English at a small college in Iowa; like her previous school in New Hampshire, this one too seems on the verge of closing for lack of funds. And Lydia, the prim younger daughter and mother of two teen-age sons, has just walked out on her banker husband after 18 years of marriage...
...thine infamy turn not away. Vada Hill Lydia Jackson Teresa Hord Hope Lewis
Despite the waste of food, no one at Eastman doubts that the lunch program has been of great benefit since it began in 1969. Says School Nurse Lydia Chacon: "Absenteeism has gone down a lot. I don't see kids staying out of school for three days at a time, and I see far fewer colds or crankiness among the little children...
...admissions prepared by an assistant to Bok was disclosed. The report said that high test scores often overpredict the academic performance of women and minorities at schools like Harvard, a finding which Third World students called "invalid" and "racist." In early November, the president of the Black Students Association, Lydia P. Jackson '82, received a death and rape threat from an as yet undetermined caller warning her to refrain from "political activities...
...Harvard would be hospitable to minority students; they wondered how minority students actually do here; they wanted to know who Klitgaard was. For some, concerns about the Klitgaard report were linked with fear engendered by threats last fall on the life of the president of the Black Students Association, Lydia P. Jackson '82, as well as the negative reputation of Boston. People sometimes called the Klitgaard report "just another case of Harvard's racism," Evans says...