Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gangland-style rubout, dictates the hours schools will be open. Tenured high school principals cannot be fired without interminable hearings. Under a 19-year-old decentralization plan, elementary and junior high schools enjoy wide latitude in curriculum and administrative matters -- which has resulted in a chaotic absence of accountability. Nevertheless, the central bureaucracy keeps a stranglehold on orders for such bedrock necessities as textbooks and Xerox paper...
...precedent for other solicitors, up to half the shopping malls in California and Nevada have barred them. In protest, parishioners from nearly 100 churches in the Bay Area are boycotting some of the malls. A few owners have relented and allowed the kettles near the entrance of their stores. Nevertheless, since the kettles collect an average of $2,000 each during the holidays, the ban may cost the charity as much as half a million dollars this season...
...Hampshire and Jackson runs strongly in the South, the other five may become even more diminished. Hart may not ultimately win that many delegates: he has neither the time nor the organization to file full slates and get the necessary signatures to be listed in many places. Nevertheless, it will become mathematically more difficult for any of the five others to forge a majority, especially if the popular fascination with Hart and Jackson continues to overshadow them...
...never ran. The Post decided not to name names, and nothing more is in the works. "I can't go out and find every woman he ever scaboozled," says Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee. "You can't ask him every day about something he has, however reluctantly, confessed to." Nevertheless, the rumors still dog Hart: last week Terry Tydings, the estranged wife of former Democratic Senator Joseph Tydings of Maryland, denied that she was the woman in the Post story...
...Chaim Rumkowski, a failed Jewish industrialist who, probably with Nazi support, set himself up as the president of the Lodz ghetto, had the power to print his own currency and stamps bearing his portrait. In the end Rumkowski came to believe he was the savior of his people, who nevertheless were shipped to the camps when the Germans liquidated the ghetto in 1944. According to one version of + Rumkowski's fate, he demanded and got a special car to transport him and his family to Auschwitz, where, to his surprise, his reign ended in the gas chamber...