Word: nearly
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...difficult for many people to remember, but when Jordan entered the league in 1984 the Bulls were nowhere near the championship-caliber team that they are now. In fact, they were pretty bad, even during the years in which Jordan was averaging better than 34 points a game...
This democratization of the highway has occurred simultaneously to a decline in traditional driver's education, once a near universal part of the curriculum in America's secondary schools--and a course beloved by generations of high schoolers, since the only way you could fail was by running over the instructor's cat. According to Allen Robinson, CEO of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association, 15 years ago, nearly 90% of all new drivers had taken an official driver's education course. With budget cuts chopping the course out of many public schools, that figure is down...
...aforementioned Gore got in Dutch for suggesting was based partly on him. (The mix-up, as I understand it, came from Gore's impression that he was the model for the main character, Oliver Barrett IV, when in fact he'd been the model for a Harvard Yard lamppost near which the doomed lovers steal a kiss in Chapter...
MARRIED. HELEN MIRREN, 51, a very modern Miss Marple, whose detective work on Prime Suspect won her an Emmy, and TAYLOR HACKFORD, 53, her longtime companion and director of Dolores Claiborne; near Inverness, Scotland...
DIED. DAVID SCHRAMM, 52, bold, influential astrophysicist whose studies of dark matter shed new light on the birth of the universe; after crashing his two-engine plane near Denver...