Word: novas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while enrolled as a student at MIT for two years and Radcliffe this past Fall, Lisa has organized fishermen in Nova Scotia, hospital workers in Boston, clerical workers in Brighton and has spent a total of three weeks in class...
...Nova Friburgo is a three hours' drive northwest of Rio, well into the mountains. The town's population is around 100,000, and most people work for the tourists. There are 150 Mobral centers there. Two teachers we spoke to claimed 90% of their students actually pass the final test-about double the national average...
...classes are held in a school-house on a hill above Nova Friburgo. The road to the school stops just beyond the door and turns into a footpath that leads up the hill to the shantytown that is home for most of the Mobral students. There are three classrooms, and at night about 80 students crowd onto the two-man benches to learn to read under four naked light bulbs dangling from the ceiling. They are working people, as their rough hands and faded clothes attest. They are clearly still not used to handling a pencil; they clutch them...
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia, to see the total eclipse of the sun . . . You're so vain.-Carly Simon, singing the rock hit You're So Vain...
...compact cars, which now account for just over one-third of the market, easily outselling the next most popular class, the intermediates, which have just over one-fifth. Some of the fastest sales increases this year have been reported for American Motors' Gremlin (up 40%), the Chevy Nova (up 33%) and the Plymouth Valiant (up 19%). But then the buyers are loading these relatively low-priced cars with expensive options. Ford President Lee lacocca expresses amazement at the number of motorists who purchase Pintos at a base price of about $2,000 and proceed to equip them with stereo...