Word: placement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plaintiffs argued that the foster placement policy discriminated against them and violated their constitutional rights to equal protection, free association and privacy...
...your 1986 letter to the Air Force objecting to the placement of GWEN in Massachusetts, you suggested that having such a communications system might encourage the "mistaken belief that nuclear war can be kept under control once it begins" and thereby "make national leaders more inclined to let one begin." Governor, what deters war is the completeness and integrity of the U.S. deterrent, and secure communications enhance our deterrent. Yet you seem to suggest that the way to deter war is to be unprepared to respond...
...Stand and Deliver. Based on a true story, the film depicts three years in the life of a Bolivian-born math teacher named Jaime Escalante, who in 1982 helped 18 of his students at East Los Angeles' gang-ridden Garfield High pass the Educational Testing Service's advanced placement test in calculus. After the ETS suggested that the students had cheated, Escalante protested. He was vindicated when all the students who retook the test passed with comparable or better scores...
...looking in from the door. Look again, and his head is poking through the window. The staff would order drinks, and he'd be the waiter bringing in the tray of martinis." Roger Altman, investment banker and Dukakis fund raiser, who understands the etiquette of job placement, warns, "Those who are qualified for the senior positions don't have to ask for them...
...turn. Carpenter Center officials who received Ritacco's notice in 1985 said the problem "did not lie with us" because structural maintenance problems were designated to other University agencies; staff said they forwarded the notice to Facilities Maintenance at the time. However, earlier this year Carpenter officials did authorize placement of chicken-wire mesh around the site of the April accident when a tour group of small children visited the center...