Word: milks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...class that meets in the red brick church building in New York City's Greenwich Village is like no other public education program in the country. All of the 14 boys and six girls, ages 14 to 19, say they are homosexual. The Harvey Milk School, which was quietly inaugurated in April, stirred considerable controversy when it came to light last week. Though the office of Mayor Edward Koch and other city agencies approved its establishment, many New York officials expressed surprise at the project, and questions were raised about the wisdom of funding a separate school (annual budget...
...Spilled milk may be worth crying about in at least one instance: when the stuff happens to land on a floppy disk. These sensitive magnetic devices, which carry the software and data used in personal computers, can be rendered useless by a tiny amounts of errant dust or goo. When that happens, the user's work is lost. The problem inspired Polaroid, a new contender in the nearly $1 billion market for floppies, to make the bold claim last March that it could bring any of its damaged disks back to life for no charge. Last week the company boasted...
...they warned, they would begin a hunger strike to the death. All the while, the students impressed American observers with their composure in executing the well-planned operation. U.S. officials supplied the students with salt, bottled water and, as the protesters' resolve wore down, with sandwiches, vegetables and milk...
...flaunting of privilege by Nicaragua's political bureaucracy. Officials drive trim, Soviet-built Lada sedans while private autos frequently lack doors or windshields because spares are not available. In a Managua supermarket, many of its shelves gapingly empty, a shopper complains that he has been unable to find powdered milk for 15 days. As he talks, a woman waits at a check-out counter with, among other things, a can of powdered milk. Says a third customer: "You see, she has connections. With the right connections you don't lack anything...
...refugees began to mass at the crossing posts along Nigeria's western border with Benin. Their mattresses, chairs, plastic containers and enamel cooking pots spilled out of trailers, trucks and minibuses. Many of those who made it across the border had first to surrender any supplies of sugar, milk and detergents--officially described as "essential commodities"--to Nigerian immigration and customs officials. No one was permitted to leave with more than $22 worth of naira, Nigeria's currency. The scenes at posts along Nigeria's borders with Niger and Chad were much the same, as streams of anxious refugees sought...