Word: offs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though two of the AFL-CIO's biggest unions, the Teamsters and United Auto Workers, withheld their endorsements last week in hopes of extracting trade protections from the Clinton Administration, the good news for Gore is that he managed to reel in the AFL without making those kinds of concessions...
"Whateverrrr." Marty Walter, eyebrows arched, is imitating one of her biology students who had the nerve to yell it at her in class. Recounting this to her colleagues at lunch is her way of venting. It took strength, when the boy talked to her afterward, not to throw "whatever" back...
What keeps the place from feeling like North Korea, though, is the genuinely benevolent interest the school's adults take in the lives of their students--on and off campus. Teachers at Webster know a remarkable amount about which girl's parents are breaking up and which boy chafes at...
Two kids wearing hats spot Detective Dreher in the hall and whip them off; this year there is a no-hat rule. "Thank you, gentlemen," he says. The school doesn't want anyone wearing anything that might identify them as a member of an exclusive group; last year, says an...
The title says it all, or perhaps too much: a "simple and unadorned melody," as the author explains it, announcing his supposedly humble intentions. There are some echoes here--of Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, even Harper Lee--and Haruf's gentle novel gives off a familiar backwoods, cold-mountain whiff. This...