Word: outreached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peer counselors and outreach groups were instigated in 1978 when Norman Carpenter, a Dartmouth alumnus, wrote to the school saying that his drinking problems stemmed from habits he learned as an undergraduate...
...response, College administration quickly organized a new Public Service Program, which would help meet community needs through a series of House-based groups. They promised that the program would operate in cooperation with the existing student-run community outreach organization, Phillips Brooks House (PBH), while broadening undergraduates' options for doing off-campus non-profit work...
...does not have to come from California's San Fernando Valley, though indeed the subspecies Puella americana vallensis (PAV) was first identified in that beige outreach of Los Angeles. She can equally well be from some honker place like Lake Forest, Ill., or Longeyeland. She got to be called a Valley Girl because of the hot five-minute single record by that name in which Frank Zappa and his maximum brilliant 15-year-old daughter Moon Unit lampooned the San Fernando species and its tribal habits. Valley Girls are by no means mere pubescent versions of the California Girl...
...translation is booming; church broadcasts reach 990 million people a month. Some 6,850 of the 8,990 ethnic or linguistic groups on earth have by now been penetrated to some extent with the gospel. Thus though the Christian proportion of the world population is declining a bit, "the outreach, impact and influence of Christianity have risen spectacularly," he maintains. If the church has not achieved its much touted turn-of-the-century goal of "the evangelization of the world in this generation," Barrett says, it has come closer than most Christians and non-Christians realize...
...sudden students seemed interested, so the Board underwent "outreach." It formed a student panel with a fanciful name--the Advisory Panel on Student Concerns--by asking friendly high school guidance counselors to spread the word and find some eligible, intelligent teenagers. The Board placed a couple more on their membership councils which convene periodically on subjects like Entrance Service or Minority Affairs. Somewhere along the line, they also hired me for the summer...