Word: posters
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Want to teach but have no credential? asks the headline on a poster inside the Los Angeles unified school district's crash recruiting center. "Relax," continues the pitch. "We can help you get your teaching credential while you work full time as a junior or senior high school teacher...
...poster and the recruiting center reflect a surprising trend: a teacher shortage that promises to get worse, not only in Los Angeles but throughout the state of California and some other parts of the country. Within the next few weeks Los Angeles must find 2,500 new instructors for its classrooms. Before the bell rings for the new term, California needs a total of some 16,500 additional elementary and secondary teachers, a number that Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig believes will jump to about 110,000 by 1991. Conservative predictions from the National Center for Education Statistics...
...Once a poster boy for Europe's resurgent far-right parties, Jörg Haider has been living a much quieter life as Governor of Carinthia, a big fish in the small pond of Austria's southernmost province, since stepping down as party leader in 2000. Now, the maverick politician is making waves again - and the turbulence is rocking Austria's coalition government. In 1999, Haider and his Freedom Party (FPO) took 27% of the vote in parliamentary elections and a place in government as junior partner to Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel's conservative Austrian People's Party...
...Damiano's next film, Devil in Miss Jones, called herself Georgina Spelvin -George Spelvin being the all-purpose pseudonym for a stage actor doubling a role (and Georgette for an actress). Jamie Gillis, another star of proto-porn, says that when he saw his face on a blue-film poster, "I thought, 'My God, I'm a serious actor. People are gonna see this poster and it's gonna ruin my career...
...outwardly charming, he coveted his privacy. Throughout 2004 he holed up in a makeshift studio apartment in the family's backyard, often sleeping until noon. The room features a television with satellite channels, a stereo with huge speakers and a motorcycle helmet, a prized souvenir from the U.S. A poster hanging over the sofa depicts an F-117 Stealth fighter in flight over a city that looks like Los Angeles...