Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bracing change, even though an editorial in the Idaho Statesman complained peevishly that the President was more interested in the state's wilderness than in its people. It was true, though, that the First Family?Jimmy, Rosalynn, Amy, Chip and Jack?soon became about as isolated as a modern First Family can get. Climbing aboard an 8-ft. by 20-ft. wooden-floored rubber raft, they set out for a threeday, 71-mile ride down the utterly uninhabited Middle Fork of the Salmon River. To be sure, Secret Service agents bobbed along near by in other rafts, and rotating teams...
...neighborhood, called the Fountain, the old walled city of Derry today is almost exclusively populated by families who would have been excluded ten years ago. The change is hardly a tribute to any growing spirit of tolerance, however, since a prime reason most Protestants left was to seek more modern housing in the newly developed?and heavily Protestant?district of Waterside...
...Crimson Key gives you one, the stories above are another, but when you buy into Harvard you will soon discover that the reason why this place is not just another college is because from the beginings of modern American history. The country's chosen have been almost one and the same with the chosen who sweat through the "rigors" of academic life here. Perhaps what is chiefly to be gained from the stories and legends that have formed around Harvard is a sight of the humanity of those here who have pretended for so long to know exactly why everyone...
...Didn't get a 560 on your French achievement, did you? Well, if you do okay on this test you don't have to take a year of languages, which is nice. The tests aren't toohard, and they are offered in German, Spanish, Chemistry, Math, Italian, Latin, Modern Hebrew, Greek and Russian. The nonlanguage jobs are for placement only, and they all take place at various times throught the week. An unavoidable necessity, unless you're a non-science type who already placed out of the language requirement. In which case you ought to spend time exploring Cambridge...
Thematic concerns, character development, and some aspects of Shakespearean performance in the Elizabethan and modern theaters...