Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...purse-strings of the College shut if you don't reverse your decision. Our new arms-for-management-consulting-work deal with a prominent Middle Eastern supplier is also putting us in a position to one day exert military pressure on University Hall. We're training in Soldiers Field Park this summer. Consider our might carefully, Dean Jewett...
...would explain the theory, in vogue among certain Bill Clinton haters, that a cabal of White House aides murdered Vincent Foster, the President's deputy counsel, and not only managed to make the killing look like a suicide but also persuaded numerous fbi agents and members of the U.S. Park Police to join in on the cover-up-all in all, a nifty feat for a White House that has yet to demonstrate it knows how to vet a nominee or hew to a position...
...having to spend valuable class time trying to get the student to push the right buttons. Where's the learning in that?" Only a few of her pupils own a calculator; the others use ones belonging to the school. Barbara Ross, who teaches A.P. math at Highland Park High School in New Jersey, is so outraged by the new policy that last January she lodged a complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union. Acting on behalf of the A.C.L.U., Rutgers University's Urban Legal Clinic is preparing to challenge the requirement on the basis of, among other things, discrimination...
...need the calculators for as much as 15% of the exam. Those scoring below a 4 (out of 5) may not receive college credit in calculus, thereby losing a chance to cut tuition costs. And some students feel they may be losing far more. Says Ernesto Andrianantoandro, a Highland Park senior who hopes to borrow a calculator from his school to take the exam: "I took this class because I wanted to do calculus and use my brain, not some machine's brain...
Well, not exactly. Fenway Park, venerable home of Boston baseball for almost a century, was dead as a door nail...