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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meetings with leaders of the paper's unions and Mayor Coleman Young, who has already hinted that he may abandon his opposition to the plan. Free Press Publisher David Lawrence triggered a ground swell of support with a front-page editorial asking readers to write in what they would miss most about the paper...
When the season finale of ABC's Moonlighting airs in May, viewers will miss television history unless they reach for their glasses. Not just any specs, but one of the 40 million pairs of 3-D glasses that the Coca-Cola company will distribute in an effort to give its pitch an extra dimension. Properly equipped viewers will see ten minutes or so of Moonlighting in 3-D, the first such network broadcast, followed by TV's first 3-D commercial, a 60-second ad for Coca-Cola Classic. The cardboard glasses will be shipped to 40,000 retail stores...
...charismatic principals like these -- and their methods % of creating an environment for learning -- were the norm in embattled urban schools across America. But they are rare exceptions, unreachable for the majority of America's urban pupils. Says Winifred Green, president of the Southern Coalition for Educational Equality in Jackson, Miss.: "I would move to any city in the country and send my kids to public school if I could pick the school. They are not all even...
...state is very open, clean and fair. There are no political-machine bosses to dominate the debate, and we are very much a two-party state with a level playing field." All true, and these high-minded attributes taken by themselves would be enough to make Iowa the Miss Congeniality of presidential politics. But Midwestern hospitality, admirable as it may be, does not compensate for the lack of diversity that undermines Iowa's claims as the nation's leading test market for Campaign...
...allusion, an object, a brand of deoderant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your blue book will have...