Word: majored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Educational issues have been among Hope's major concerns in politics, her son says. "She loves to teach and learn, and she loves the law," he says...
...even if the plan does pass, it may do so at the expense of racial harmony. If controlled choice wins a majority vote of the School Committee over the objections of its four Black members, many say this would represent a major setback for a city trying to emerge from the shadow of racial politics...
Reality is painted so faithfully and humorously in Mastergate that one begins to wish the hearings had been this way in real life. We are told that the actor Joseph Daly is playing Vice President Burden. But when he delivers lines, or rather Bushisms, like, "Major Battle helped lead his men in the attack in the mud at Pearl Harbor," we cannot help but wish our own administration were so eloquently incompetent. Actor Daniel von Bargen portrays Major Manley Battle, whose lines like "standing orders prevent me from flying on anything but a stealth bomber," even outdo the real-life...
...Pitino has been the major force in the Knicks' resurrection...
...technical information with foreign scientists, a policy which has merely made research more difficult in this crucial field. A 1987 report by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that the current level of export controls cost the economy 188,000 jobs and $9 billion a year and was a major factor contributing to the nation's record trade deficit...