Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...declining quality of schooling that children receive, says Education Secretary William Bennett, "is arguably the No. 1 domestic concern of the American people." Presidential candidates have taken note. Last Friday, a few days after school bells called students to class around the country, a roster of White House hopefuls gathered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for earnest seminars on the subject. In separate forums, all seven active Democratic campaigners and Republicans Jack Kemp and Pete du Pont debated the single topic of how to boost the failing grades being given to American education...
...press as defined in the West is still a foreign notion in the Soviet Union. Rather, discussions among Soviet journalists about a free press concentrate on how much editorial independence is needed to help Gorbachev in his efforts to modernize the economy and revitalize the country. Glasnost, Soviet experts note, was not intended to mean freedom of information for information's sake...
...days later authorities revealed that a farewell note in a trouser pocket had confirmed what many had already surmised: Rudolph Hess, the last surviving member of Nazi Germany's high command, had finally escaped his captors by taking his own life...
...correspondence with his patron Alvin Wirtz and others, you could trace the most intricate deals and such matters as his stormy relationship with Sam Rayburn," says Caro. "Then, at a crucial moment, just when you want to know what someone is thinking, you'll run into a telegram or note saying 'Phone me tonight.' That's when you feel the impact of the telephone right in your gut." In researching L.B.J.'s role in the passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Bill, Caro says he has been reduced to deciphering scrawls at the bottom of telephone-message slips...
Soon after that, he began to write messages, sometimes in his own blood, promising a $10,000 reward to anyone who would help rescue him. He wrote nine such notes, scribbling some of them on the pages of a prayer book supplied by his captors, and pushing them out through the opening in a wall fan. His kidnapers found the ninth note. They warned him that if he made such a "mistake" again, they would kill him. Then they moved him to another location, the one at which he plotted his successful escape...