Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absolute jewel," began with this set of rules: "In class on time; no hats; no Walkman in school; a student roaming the corridors without a pass is written up immediately and given a warning." His neighbor, Principal O'Neill at Lewenberg, set up equally simple standards. "The first order was to maintain control of the hallways, so we put in quiet, single- filing lines. Students go to their lockers at the beginning of the day. An assignment left in a locker is a missed assignment. Bathroom passes are issued only during the first ten minutes of class...
...Chicago, Marva Collins has brought order and learning -- and national acclaim -- to Westside Preparatory School with her own brand of rules. Chewing gum is out: "If they insist on chewing gum, we have them do a paper on the etymology of the word gum." Any cocky youngster who walks into Westside with a defiant swagger, or wearing gang jewelry, gets special treatment: "I put my arm on their shoulder and say, 'Darling, is your hip broken?' Or, 'You're going to have to take out that earring...
...addition to changes in the ways that consumers buy medical services, advances in medical research and technology have contributed to rising costs. Doctors who might have ordered X rays ten years ago, for example, now may call for the much more detailed -- and more expensive -- images produced by nuclear magnetic resonance imaging equipment. Moreover, the rise in malpractice awards has prompted doctors to order more tests. Blue Cross estimates that $30 billion was spent on lab tests, X rays and electrocardiograms in 1986 and that as many as half of those tests were not necessary...
...court's seven magistrates are not expected to reach a verdict until June. If they find Honduras guilty, they can issue a condemnation and order the government to pay reparations. "This case has the potential to depoliticize human rights," says Claudio Grossman, one of the lawyers involved in the prosecution. "Instead of making human rights a point of ideological discourse, it can be adjudicated...
...aged relative's demise -- as mere material. His outlook could be that of a genius or a schizophrenic or a psychopath. The confluence among those personalities is precisely Dickinson's point and confers most of the book's considerable suspense. Comparisons to Dostoyevsky are not out of order...