Word: myriads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NOTHING in the world is more humiliating than being passed on the slopes by a five-year-old tot on skis with a sticker on the back of his jacket reading "Eat my exhaust, sucker!" Unless of course, you count the myriad pre-schoolers who sidle up to you in the ski lodge, look at your ski pass and yell to their moms, "He's only a novice! He's only a novice...
...organized "College Here We Come," a program that has helped send nearly 600 academically gifted youngsters from public housing to colleges throughout the U.S. Since 1981 Gray has helped create a wide range of programs for the 3,500 residents of the project that have paid off in myriad ways: in the past six years dependence on welfare has dwindled from 85% to 2%, administrative costs of the project have dropped by nearly two-thirds, and teenage pregnancies have been cut in half. Along the way, Gray's brand of tenant management has saved the District and Federal Government about...
These arguments are packed with misunderstanding and misrepresentation of a court which, for the first time, candidly and unqualifiably addressed the myriad factors in our society which perpetuate the subtle infrastructures of racial segregation...
Beefing up ethnic studies is a necessary response to changing U.S. demographics. Hopefully, the new courses will reach a substantial portion of Harvard students and help them understand the myriad of groups making America their home...
...presumably, are the readers and viewers who sit back and gorge on junk news. But what nourishment can they take from these myriad factoids about a film's budget, an actor's motivation, a director's neuroses, a special-effects man's wizardry? If moviegoers gain infotainment, they may be losing their innocence -- the magic tingle of walking into a big, dark theater whose pleasures are yet to be revealed. By pushing its stars and its secrets across the breakfast table, Hollywood may be hyping itself right out of the wonder business...