Word: mends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend Actress Janet Gaynor remains in stable condition from the accident, Martin was adamant that the show go on-in this case, Over Easy, the PBS-TV program for older Americans that she co-hosts with Jim Hartz. With her two broken ribs and fractured pelvis on a slow mend, she taped her first postaccident show (which began airing last week). "I have to walk two blocks a day," says Martin. "Right now, though, I just can't lift my darned foot. I go up and down stairs backward...
Happily, some observers are at last starting to realize that such solutions are essentially superficial. These days, the problems in high school run so deep that no external meddling will mend them. Admission-related measures have no effect on schools whose primary purpose is not to prepare students for college. Yet they're in the worst trouble of all, struggling fiercely just to comply with basic competency requirements. A Mississippi editor wrote in late July that out-of-state recruiters, shifting through the state's high-school graduates for possible jobs, couldn't find enough trainable people to meet their...
Findley's reweaving of history is so canny that it is sometimes difficult to tell where the tear ends and the mend begins. The duke, for instance, did visit Germany in 1937, where he took tea with Field Marshal Goring and was photographed with Hitler. And he did lounge in neutral Portugal, as if to wait out the hostilities, until Winston Churchill learned of a Nazi kidnap plot and ordered British troops to provide an escort to the Bahamas. But the additional malice is pure Findley: British commandos raid the duke's quarters, only to find the royal...
...first is that only by promising secrecy will the College be able to get the professor's accurate and full account of an incident. And secondly there is the principle that by Harvard, an educational institution, treating the matter secretly, the guilty party will have the opportunity to mend his ways and learn from the experience...
...convivial. There was Vice President George Bush, smiling affably as his host, Chinese Communist Party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, raised a glass of mao-tai in a toast to Sino-American friendship. In fact, after two days of talks with China's top leadership, Bush had failed to mend a relationship between the two nations that has been deteriorating virtually from the day President Ronald Reagan took office. When Bush returned to Washington last week, he could only say that he was taking some unspecified "new ideas" back to the President, together with a Chinese warning that the problem...