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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time when there is a great deal of lamentation about the decline in writing skills among American children, the program seems to be a beacon of hope. "Children who respond to this write in a profound way," observes Miriam Kronish, the principal at Hillside. Best of all, "it's fun," says a Hillside fifth-grader and budding poet, Elizabeth Stone. "You can write what you want," she points out, and unlike too many other assignments, "you understand what you are writing about...
...more than 350 senior members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will have a chance to respond at next week's full faculty meeting. FAS sent copies of the nine-page report this week's to each faculty member and the conclusions of the report are the major item on meeting's agenda...
...maintenance does respond to all complaints, according to Bill Endres, the B-School's manager for maintenance. "When we get a problem, we just respond to them as they arise." He added that the temperature in the library is generally kept at around 70 degrees...
...many months to find a suitable job, whether to supplement Social Security or fill spare time. But between 1980 and 1986 the number of part-time employees in the U.S. rose by 23%, twice the rate of full-time jobholders, in part because many large corporations were quick to respond to the widened applicant pool. McDonald's created McMasters, a four-week job-training program for people over 50. The part-time work has helped people like Kathrine Gaik, 76, dodge an idle old age. The Travelers Insurance Co. of Hartford is saving more than $1 million a year...
...candidates have been quick to respond. Most have produced either a touching story of an aged parent or, in the case of Michael Dukakis, the real thing. Jesse Jackson, invoking Social Security's creator, tells voters that he "would rather have Franklin Roosevelt in a wheelchair than Ronald Reagan on a horse." Virtually all have come out in support of the long-term health- care bill now stalled in Congress, which, if it ever passed, would cost the Government tens of billions of dollars over the next five years. Only Republican Pete du Pont has proposed radically restructuring Social Security...