Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet ships in the Indian Ocean are perceived as benign, whereas American ships raise the threat of a superpower confrontation." One ray of hope is that Soviet actions, such as the invasion of Afghanistan, will undo that country's public relations prowess, and that the U.S. will not repeat policy shifts that angered the Indians, such as the Carter Administration's withholding of promised nuclear fuel. Says Goheen: "All the public diplomacy in the world cannot overcome the erratic or threatening actions of a country...
...jury took its first vote: it was split. The crucial factor in the jurors' minds was Harris' detailed yet contradictory description of the shootings. They asked to have five hours of her testimony reread. Foreman Russell Von Glahn, a bus mechanic from Yonkers, had a clerk repeat aloud again and again the parts where Harris tried to recall how the shots were fired. Marion Stephens, a teacher from Rye, asked to have Harris' account of how she attempted suicide reread twice...
...some cases, players have been preparing for these visits since age twelve or 13. Parents squeezed by inflation and sons fired by dreams of glory have become so eager to win athletic scholarships that students voluntarily repeat the eighth grade to fatten up for high school football...
...extent of the practice is difficult to judge, since school systems do not maintain separate records for students who repeat a grade voluntarily and those who repeat for academic reasons. But officials in Texas, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Louisiana admit the practice has become routine at some schools. In Georgia, the number of holdbacks has become so widespread that the state legislature ordered an investigation into the issue. Says Bill Fordham, executive director of the Georgia High School Athletic Association: "More and more schools are doing it because it's legal. The end will come when the taxpayers...
...absence of legislative action, however, parents may request that their sons repeat a grade, and school officials are bound to comply with their wishes. Often following the lead of high school coaches who have held their own sons back, parents insist that their young footballers need an extra year of "maturity" before entering high school. Douglas Griffin, superintendent of schools in Murray County, Ga., recalls, "Our high school basketball coach held his son back in the eighth grade, and he ended up getting a college scholarship. After that, it kind of snowballed." Adds Griffin, who held his own football-playing...