Word: placement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Poor communities are looking for the courts to save them, Robin Hood-style, by shifting funds from richer ones. "There are school districts with swimming pools," growls Steve Honselman, a school-board vice president in Illinois' Casey-Westfield district. "Meanwhile, we don't have advanced-placement classes." He and his wife are part of a class action demanding that the state equalize school funding. "With three children in the schools," says Honselman, "we've tried everything from bake sales to raffles to raise funds. But we can't raise enough." Last week Texas failed for a third time to come...
With housing authority more firmly centralized in Jewett's office, the institutional mechanism has come more in line with what he has wanted for several years. The immediate placement of transfer students weakens the element of housing choice even further. And the withering away of house vitality as a result of DeWolfe makes a proposal for change seem more attractive to masters and largely irrelevant to more students...
...perhaps the most severe blow to the city's innovative job placement program for teenagers, he began trimming the Work Force's clientele down from...
Strianse starts the process by preparing a mock-up of the magazine that shows the tentative placement of each ad page. Meanwhile, Quiggle is given the editorial requirements for that week's issue. Then she and Strianse work the puzzle, trying to fulfill both the editors' needs and the advertisers' requests. As a proof for each page becomes available, it is pasted into position in a "dummy" version of the magazine, allowing the makeup mavens to see at a glance how ad and edit go together...
...everyone, however, has such a bleakprognosis for this year's job market. VictorLindquist, director of placement at NorthwesternUniversity who conducted a study whose findingsmirrored those of the Michigan State survey, saidthat the media has blown out of proportion theseverity of the job shortage...