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...Children's Hearings Project operates out of the Cambridge, Somerville, and Malden Juvenile Courts. It has been funded since its first cases in June 1981 by the Ford Foundation and other private grants Probation officers refer CHINS cases to Project case coordinators, who suggest to the parties involved the mediation alternative. Project director Sandra A. Wixted says that "very disorganized families, or families with severe mental problems, tend to screen themselves out": either they do not accept mediation or they fail to appear for scheduled mediation sessions...
American slang is fed by many tributaries. Feminists are busy networking-the liberated version of using the old-boy network. Cops, as sardonic with language as criminals are, refer to a gunshot wound in the head as a serious headache. Drug users have their codes, but they seem to have lost some of their glamour. Certain drugs have a fatality about them that cannot be concealed in jaunty language. The comedian Richard Pryor introduced the outer world to freebasing a couple of years ago, and John Belushi died after he speed-balled (mixed heroin and cocaine). Punk language has made...
...both of these cases, which were found valid by the University and in which punishment was meted out the students involved were white and the professors were Black. Because there are only these two publicized cases every time anyone talks about how a harasser was punished they must constantly refer back to the same two Black...
...activities [Sept. 20]. However, the discussion of ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) confuses several separate projects. You note the success of the mini-OTEC facility and then state: "But a larger plant built in 1981 off Kailua-Kona, on Hawaii, was a $50 million failure." The larger plant you refer to was a Federal Government project, which was terminated owing to lack of federal funds. Contrary to your statement, Hawaii has not ordered designs for four new 10-megawatt OTEC plants. Rather, the Federal Government has granted awards to General Electric Co. and Ocean Thermal Corp. for the conceptual design...
...China's commitment to peaceful resolution of the island's future. The Chinese Communist Party daily Renmin Ribao attacked the President for "completely violating" the spirit of the communiqué. The Chinese want to leave the linkage tacit. Reagan's sin, in their eyes, was to refer to it explicitly...