Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael is magic...
...case has received wide attention not only because New York City supports the nation's largest school system but because Alvarado is no ordinary educator. Eleven months ago, he became the city's first Hispanic chancellor, after working educational magic as superintendent of East Harlem's Spanish-speaking District 4, one of the city's poorest sections. In just a decade, Alvarado's energy and imagination improved student performance dramatically and attracted talented teachers. He became known as an administrator who made fast decisions and had little use for bureaucracy. The only serious reservation about...
Where does the money come from? This is sport's mystery of life, and not even Steve Young, Magic Johnson, George Steinbrenner and the Dallas Cowboys know the answer positively. Only one senior tournament is televised, but real estate deals and deductible charities are involved. The trail of the old golfers is defined by condominiums, and, on two Pro-Am days a week, wealthy hackers or executives with expense accounts pay several thousand dollars apiece to have their putts read by Sam Snead, 71. "The funny thing is," Snead says without laughing, "my right eye is gone: no depth...
...American public ever had the patience to give some of these policies a real chance or whether they were funded to the extent required or whether other Federal programs such as highway construction and tax benefits for homeowners undercut their effectiveness. The truth is that none worked the magic its advocates had predicted. In some cases (urban renewal, for example) more harm than good may have been achieved. In others management proved a real problem. In still others, well-publicized abuses particularly rip--offs of poverty and housing programs, damaged the programs credibility. In others the unintended consequences of well...
...also alludes to the cyclical nature of hair styles. "The same thing is generated over and over again," says Dod hinting that perhaps there is no magic in the forecasting of styles...