Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After he was appointed the first black superintendent of schools in Minneapolis in 1980, Richard Green earned a national reputation as a stern and innovative educator. He thus had high hopes of muscling New York City's chaotic school system into order when he became its first black chancellor 14 months ago. But the transition from guiding 40,000 Minneapolis students to dealing with 940,000 in New York was a rude jolt...
Beyond that, Theroux's randy adventurer has a convincing, if not necessarily reassuring, reality of his own. Parent is a droll reminder that nature adores deception. His admission that "in order to be strong I needed to have secrets" sounds no more or no less deceitful than the call of any unhousebroken creature who relies on stealth to catch a meal, a mate or juicy material for a novel...
...offering callers a menu of choices and playing the messages they select. The most powerful machines combine voice-message units with huge computer files, which enable callers to use their telephones to navigate through long lists of stock quotes or catalog items. Some units even allow a caller to order merchandise and charge it to a credit card, without ever speaking to a human...
...numerous areas of Black American life requiring serious attention from Harvard Black students. The poor reading, writing and math performance of Black public school students in inner cities cries out for tutorial assistance from Black college students (and from white, Asian, and Hispanic students too.) Such a program, in order to be effective, will have to sustained over the next 20 years perhaps...
...tense? Two tents? I'd love to tell a few more knee-slappers like that one in order to further reduce the astronomically high levels of tension on this campus, but I can't. My 25 minutes...