Word: poorer
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...changing face of Minneapolis: a third of them are "European American," a third of them are African American and almost a third are Asian American--mostly Hmong from Southeast Asia. With 78% of the students eligible for free or reduced-cost lunch, Olson is one of the city's poorer middle schools, but in last year's state reading tests, Olson came in third among the seven middle schools...
...second week in a row, however, Harvard played a far poorer tail end of the game. After breaking out for over 200-yards passing in the first half, Linden completed only four-of-13 passes for 26 yards in the final two quarters. The primary reason for the slump was the complex scheme of zone blitzes thrown in by the Bison...
...comedy turn in Toothless--a fantasy made for ABC's newly revived Wonderful World of Disney--playing a workaholic dentist turned tooth fairy. And at Christmastime, she will co-star in movies with two famous and funny Allens: Woody in Deconstructing Harry and Tim in For Richer or Poorer. The normally reticent Woody Allen, who had never seen Alley until he chanced upon an old Cheers rerun while surfing the TV for a baseball game last year, says he knew immediately he wanted her to play his neurotic psychiatrist ex-wife. "The character called for a kind of earth motherly...
While Karadzic and his cronies have been amassing fortunes, the republic's 900,000 citizens have grown poorer. Unemployment in parts of the Bosnian Serb Republic remains as high as 80%; only 3% of international aid has gone to the Bosnian Serbs, because the Pale hard-liners have refused to carry out Dayton's provisions. Plavsic, who once opposed the treaty, says she realizes that the only way Bosnian Serbs can "reach full economic progress" and survive is to not fight the accord...
...household name. Ten years later she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. "She was not a publicity seeker," said Ostling. "But in terms of public image, there is nobody comparable to her." Her tireless efforts have enriched the lives of the poor; today, the world itself is much poorer for her passing...