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...unscheduled events on the President-elect's calendar. Schmidt was in Washington as a result of a miscalculation; he had expected Carter to win the election and scheduled an early visit to patch up their strained relations. In the new circumstances, the German leader had his aides pester Reagan's advisers with requests for a meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How to Charm a City | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...says, though she now often has to grade papers during lunch hour as well as at home. Kids who won't do homework? "I assign work to the child with a note of finality, and I keep after him until he realizes that I will pester until the work is done. He might as well do it in the first place." Demands that take teachers' time from teaching? "Sometimes you have to fight to teach the basic skills, but I'm going to have reading every day with every child so I know what he knows." Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: ... And Some Who Carry On | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

...dump that children are not allowed out at night. In summer, when gypsies take to the highways in camper trucks as wandering salesmen and secondhand dealers, the treatment that they encounter is especially rough. Owners of almost 90% of West Germany's campsites, claiming that the gypsies would pester vacationers by peddling their wares, have tacked up signs reading GYPSIES FORBIDDEN. Police periodically descend on camping gypsies with guard dogs and submachine guns and force them to move on. "We are the original campers," Rose complains. "Yet now everyone can live like a gypsy in West Germany except gypsies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Nazis' Forgotten Victims | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Headstrong and impulsive, Aries are likely to race across lawns and trample KEEP OFF THE GRASS signs. Geminis bark a lot. Libras sniff inquisitively under tables and into closets. Leos chase animals while Scorpios pester for second helpings. And if that doesn't sound like your sign of the zodiac, not to worry. Seer Jeane Dixon, famous and wealthy from casting people, has now gone to the dogs. "Dogs, after all," insists Dixon in her new book, Horoscopes for Dogs, "live under the same stars that we do." Take her Teddy, a mutt of indiscriminate breed. Dixon obviously doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 14, 1979 | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...imaginary invalid, Argan (Brian McCue), is a shameless hypochondriac who does nothing but whine about his "illness," pester his family and servants, and gripe about his exorbitant doctor bills. His only real illness is myopia--he cannot see beyond himself--and he cannot see the truth of anything that goes on around...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: 'Invalid' Alive and Fairly Well | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

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