Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fajardo, who has been observing at Madison Park High School in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury, has been concentrating on the particular difficulties of teaching at an inner city high school...
While, there is no system for gauging a particular food's appeal to students, these fast food facsimiles seem to do very well...
With Congress facing painful cutbacks in domestic spending, assistance to "freedom fighters" halfway around the globe is not the most popular issue on the Hill. In addition, many Congressmen feel that the President has been unable to muster much popular enthusiasm for his Central American policies in particular and the Reagan Doctrine in general. House Speaker Tip O'Neill called the President's Grenada visit "a Hollywood kickoff to a greater military involvement in Nicaragua." He warned, "Equipping (the contras) and sending them into battle will lead to nothing but slaughter and humiliation. The shame of that defeat will bring...
...newspaper revolution, Shah and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher created the climate for the rebellion. In the early 1980s, Thatcher's government passed two laws that severely clipped union powers. No longer could workers summon other unions to support a strike, nor did employees have to belong to a particular union in order to hold their jobs. Most important, the courts could levy heavy fines and freeze the assets of unions that flouted the new rules. Shah tested the laws in 1983, when several printers walked off their jobs at his plant in northern England; after a violent seven-month battle...
...investigation. And word leaked out that Rogers had told the White House he had been "appalled" by the way the launch decision had been made. At a public hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings said of the disaster: "At this particular juncture it seems like an avoidable accident rather than an unavoidable one." Later he charged that it was becoming "increasingly apparent that NASA made a high-level, political decision to go ahead with a morning launch of the shuttle, despite strong objections from Morton Thiokol engineers, who said the temperature...