Word: patly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Expository Writing course.Every first-year has to take Expos. For many it'sa nightmare, due to professors that are eitherincompetent, annoying or both. But since it's oneof the few courses at Harvard with a maximum classsize of ten or 12 students, it has a lot ofpotential. Landing Pat Hoy as a professor was justblind luck. Maybe everybody's first year isrevolutionized by pieces of luck like this, goodor...
...Pat Newbury's McDonald's restaurant in Renton, Wash., some young employees earn an hour's pay not for flipping burgers but for studying an hour before their work shift begins. In a Chicago-area restaurant, Hispanic teenagers are being tutored in English. In Tulsa, a McDonald's crew is studying algebra after work. At a Honolulu restaurant, student workers get an extra hour's pay to study for an hour after closing. In Colorado, Virginia and Massachusetts there are Stay in School programs offering bonus money for employees who receive good grades. Reading-improvement classes frequently take place...
...hour cbs documentary, WATERGATE: THE SECRET STORY, to be aired this Wednesday, Mike Wallace puts the scandal in perspective and elicits new facts from participants. Howard Hunt says a goal was to uncover illegal foreign funds going to the Democrats. Wallace reveals a memo from Nixon speechwriter Pat Buchanan urging use of "a sharp stick" to destroy Democrat Edmund Muskie, and Donald Segretti describes the "dirty tricks" used to accomplish that goal. Bob Woodward adds a few tiny details about "Deep Throat," and the show concludes with the parlor game of guessing just who he might...
Second, the NEA has a new acting director, Anne-Imelda Radice, 44, an arts administrator put in by Bush to replace John Frohnmayer, who was fired to appease Pat Buchanan's distorted and ranting attacks on the NEA during the early primaries. Radice told a House subcommittee on appropriations that "if we find a proposal that does not have the widest audience . . . we just can't afford to fund that." At a May conference at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art she declared that, despite the acrid controversy over NEA policy in the arts community, "blood is thicker...
...between Christianity and Islam. The Saudi preachers also contend that Protestants from the West have been exploiting tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbors to this end. They cite actions by American Presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter as well as televangelists Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson as "proof." Their advice to their followers: seek converts, especially in America; send Korans and money to Palestinian Muslims and urge them to procreate; and commission the best weapons that money can buy -- from Japan...