Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outweighs the benefits. "The students grow dependent on a machine to do all the work for them," says Joan Harrison, who teaches A.P. math in Durham, North Carolina. "And I'm driven nuts because I'm having to spend valuable class time trying to get the student to push the right buttons. Where's the learning in that?" Only a few of her pupils own a calculator; the others use ones belonging to the school. Barbara Ross, who teaches A.P. math at Highland Park High School in New Jersey, is so outraged by the new policy that last January...
...east to the notorious Perm-35 prison camp in the Urals. "After Lefortovo," he said, "there was a 17-day trip in a cage with 15 murderers, all with TB. In Perm I was a transport worker hauling 500 lbs. of metal parts in a handcart. I had to push the cart, and my right shoulder joint broke." Potashov and the other prisoners worked 10 hours a day, six days a week. Although only 37, Potashov aged rapidly in the Gulag. "I was in Perm five years and seven months. The doctor told me I had bones like...
...sign, say some residents, is symbolic. In 1969, students stormed University Hall to protest the Vietnam War and push for curriculum changes. The event was planned and coordinated in Dudley's basement, according to resident Richard Cole...
Bonfili, who tried to push through various reforms during his time on the council, has given us an accurate assessment of the council as an organization. It possesses an unparalleled ability among campus groups to bring important issues to the attention of the administration...
Thompson did not push for the granting permit, and critics say he sided with Flaherty's view that increased traffic on Memorial Drive made expansion undesirable...