Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radical way to have accountability." Irritated White House officials scrambled to dissociate themselves from Bennett's impolitic outburst. But if the President and the Governors fail to show concrete results in this latest round of school reform, perhaps parents will be ready to take Bennett up on his offer...
...thick album filled with letters and pictures of couples in search of a child. Jan and Dick Evans, like nearly everyone else in the book, posed smiling with their dog. "We want, in sum, to provide your child with all the benefits our own health, love and success can offer -- not to spoil, but to share," they wrote. Nicole liked that...
What Mazzafro did was offer Michael large doses of love and patience. That formula had already worked wonders with Tuan, now 14, a Vietnamese refugee who had come to Mazzafro four months earlier, speaking no English and still toting the cardboard box that had been his bed at a relocation center in Malaysia. Now he's an honors student at the local junior high, while Michael has become a computer whiz with his sights set on Princeton. Meanwhile, Joe Mazzafro is applying his methods to Brandon, 9, his third adopted son, who tumbled through nine foster homes in his first...
...teach them health-industry vocational skills. After 1,300 students dropped out of area high schools last year, Orlando launched a school-business compact. In return for a written pledge to stay in school, troubled youths ages 14 to 18 are paired with "mentors" from local firms who offer counseling as well as a promise of a full-time job upon graduation or financial aid for more education. More than 90 students have enrolled so far this fall. Like most school-business partnerships, the Orlando program is small, localized and ! labor intensive. But the work-study approach, which Bush backs...
...course Wisconsin made a competitive offer to Nellie, and of course we would have seen [her leaving] as a severe loss," said Carl A. Grant, the department chair. He said McKay received tenure at Wisconsin after Harvard made its offer but added that her promotion "was already in the pipeline" and had nothing to do with the competition for the literary scholar...