Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important for urban teachers to be present to give a practical point of view and to give an urban perspective to the discussion. I hope I've been able to offer some perspective from an urban viewpoint. I think people appreciate that," Lovett says...
...said the present uprisings are far from unique in the past 50 years of Israeli history. "Shootings, tear gas, mass detentions, curfews, and even burying people under piles of dirt is not a new phenomenon," he said. "The increased volume is significant but it may just fade away into the normal life of the occupier and the occupied...
...elderly, a 200% rise in days of hospital care, a 280% growth in the number of nursing-home residents. Between now and the year 2000, a new 220-bed nursing home will have to be opened every day just to keep even with demand. Without a change in the present system, pension and health-care costs will account for more than 60% of the federal budget...
...Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, a lad gets shanghaied into maturity at the cost of his old principles; in John Boorman's Hope and Glory, a boy finds German fire bombs virtually on his front porch. Neither child would fit comfortably into a Hollywood idyll, past or present, where kids are expected to have reality-resistant minds and hang out forever at the soda fountain of youth...
What made Watkins' case different, said the judges, was that he was charged only with being gay, not with a specific act of sodomy. Wrote Norris: "Any attempt to criminalize the status of an individual's sexual orientation would present grave constitutional problems." Watkins has never denied his orientation. The son of a career Army man, he admitted "homosexual tendencies" when he enlisted in 1967, at 19. Later he worked during off-duty hours, with his commander's permission, as a female impersonator. In his job rating, he was regularly praised for spit-shined professionalism. Although previous investigations had upheld...