Word: membered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left-wing Latin American leaders Fidel Castro and Omar Torrijos of Panama. One should also expect deep penetration of the privacy that surrounds Greene's life in the south of France, where he has lived since the '60s. A genuine coup would be the identity of the Swedish Academy member who, as rumor has it, blocks Greene's path to a Nobel Prize...
...generation of computer-based teaching tools that work with students much the way a teacher does, walking them through incorrect answers to show where they went astray. The key to these new tools is the concept of apprenticeship. Says Lauren Resnick, past president of the 14,500-member American Educational Research Association: "Apprenticeship has the promise of building abstract abilities in our children that are well grounded in actual experience...
Accepting a place on a five-member national governing junta dominated by the Sandinistas, Violeta was soon appalled by the course the country's new rulers were taking: "I began to see an excessive militarism, an exaggerated Cuban presence and less interest in democratic ideas." She resigned from the junta in April 1980 and turned her attention to her paper...
...over: $2.4 million went to incumbents after last Nov. 9. Senate Finance chairman Lloyd Bentsen collected the most PAC money -- $2.4 million -- demonstrating that he didn't really need to organize that $10,000 breakfast club. Richard Gephardt, Tom Foley's probable replacement as Democratic majority leader, led House members with $610,107. Agriculture Committee member Bill Emerson followed with $579,478, Tom Foley with $575,086, and minority leader Robert Michel with $555,340. Banking Committee member David Dreier, New York's Stephen Solarz and the ever prosperous Dan Rostenkowski all have more than $1 million in their campaign...
...Perhaps the worst part of the current culture is the amount of time and attention elected officials lavish not on the general public but on people who can lavish money on them. Members of Congress take to calling their contributors friends. The confusion makes for some convoluted rationalizations. A friend, the reasoning goes, can cut a member in on a lucrative investment, treat him to a luxurious vacation and supply him with cash, not because he has an interest in a one-line amendment to a bill that will save his industry millions of dollars, but because he is, well...