Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Institute now in its third year has a dual purpose. It offers principals an exposure to the latest in educational research, and provides them with a rare opportunity to share ideas with colleagues from 30 states and eight countries, according to Kenneth S. Haskins, co-director of the Ed School's Principals' Center...
Baryshnikov left the cosseted life at Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, where artistic challenges were rare and cultural politics strangulating. "I didn't have the patience, and I'm not smart enough," he says. "I love that country and those people, but I am an individualist, and there it is a crime...
...high school on Chicago's Far North Side, algebra classes are conducted not only in English but in Spanish, Cantonese, Vietnamese and Assyrian. Along Bolsa Avenue in Santa Ana, Calif., virtually every sign for more than a mile is in Vietnamese: Vietnamese supermarkets, bookstores, pharmacies that deal in rare herbs. Ten years ago, nothing was there but warehouses and strawberry fields...
...been unable to collect customs duties for many months. Even some liquor stores are operating, though they keep their stocks hidden for fear of attracting the attention of fanatic Shi'ite militiamen who roam about looking for violations of the Islamic stricture against alcohol. Shortages of staples are rare; only severe and prolonged shelling interrupts the flow of imported goods. Housewives rush out to do their shopping early in the morning, when an unofficial cease-fire reigns; the shelling usually does not start until midday...
...aviation sources pointed out, he could have sent a distress signal and possibly continued to glide for 30 minutes. And even if his power source had been cut, he could have used a backup system. In addition, officials observed, sudden disappearances from radar and crashes at sea are very rare. Never before has a commercial jet crossing the Atlantic plunged into the ocean...