Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boston won its last seven games, but Philadelpdia stayed just out of reach by winning its last 11 straight...
...Robinson sets up the tutorial assignments for the sophomore, junior, and senior classes. She makes sure that seniors have their these topics set, sees that these are handed in on time, makes sure they reach readers, gets them to the President's office for approval, and determines honors rankings. The records of all the students in Harvard's largest department are in her charge...
Many teachers across the U.S. feel that Up the Down Staircase effectively reinforces their own desire to reach lost children. They are moved by the boy who explains in a note to Miss Barrett, signed only "Me," why he may drop out of school: "I'm nobody especial so nobody knows me, maybe I'll be somebody with a job." Miss Kaufman contends in the book that there is only one consolation for a teacher's many agonies: "To make a permanent difference to at least one child." Her teacher-readers respond with a heartfelt amen...
...from the IMF to cover their recurrent financial difficulties. Continental countries, however, regard such a system as potentially inflationary and therefore a dangerous plaything in the hands of countries prone to mismanaging their own economies. There, at week's end, the impasse lay-with solutions farther out of reach than ever. And as far as anyone could figure out, the chief result of De Gaulle's new stand was to make mischief...
...long day's courtship moves from the beach to an impromptu airplane excursion to the Copenhagen zoo, then home and bed, but not before the would-be seducer confides: "Every time you reach a port, you think you'll find what you want. By the time you leave a place, you're sick of it." Lindgren's camera dotes on closeups, catching every glimmer of doubt, every stab of loneliness, until the whole film tingles with a heady sense of discovery. Finally, it sees through the girl's eyes that the hot-blooded mariner...