Word: parise
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PARIS: Died: Jacques Cousteau, who brought the fantastic, muticolored undersea world of ice formations, shipwrecks and just plain mackerel to America's television masses, after more than 60 years of underwater exploration. "Jacques-Yves Cousteau has rejoined the World of Silence," the Cousteau Foundation succinctly announced, leaving unstated the cause...
That's what happened to Lee Hicks, Paris High School should've-been class of '93. Had he lived 14 miles away in Oklahoma, which has no statewide exit test, he'd have received a diploma and would now be serving his country in the Navy. Instead Hicks serves customers...
Paris High School principal Randy Wade agrees. Before he took over, the school had been branded "low performing" because of its TAAS scores. "With the low-performance rating, we knew our backs were against the wall," says Wade. He aligned the curriculum to the test and shortened classes by five...
For German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, though, all talk of tinkering with the Maastricht rules is anathema--and a potential threat to his re-election chances next year. "Kohl's already having trouble selling the German public on the idea of exchanging their hard D-marks for soft euros," says Paul...
It's been only four months since she was sworn in, but already American diplomacy is feeling the Albright touch. Her interpreters spend more time sitting silently; during a Paris visit, she conducted her meeting with Foreign Minister Herve de Charette in French, one of five languages she speaks. Her...