Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week at the White House, on the fifth anniversary of A Nation at Risk, Secretary of Education William Bennett presented President Reagan with a sequel that is likely to be even more controversial. Titled American Education: Making It Work, the new report tries to assess what the reform movement has achieved during the past half decade. "There has been undeniable progress," proclaimed the Secretary. "Students have made modest gains." But, he concluded, "we are still at risk...
...Washington, elected officials from Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia met to discuss the record number of drug-related killings and arrests in their region and propose stiffer penalties for selling drugs near schools. Said Washington Mayor Marion Barry: "No young person in this region is not at risk...
...thugs who founded the crack trade recognized early on that young teens do not run the risk of mandatory jail sentences that courts hand out to older dealers. Because juveniles are rarely imprisoned for any great length of time, they provide a uniquely recyclable labor pool. "We have created a revolving door," says George Robinson, assistant district attorney for Fulton County, Ga., which covers Atlanta. "There is no provision under our law to mandate restrictive custody for these youths. They're selling drugs, and we're just spanking them on the hands...
...suddenly he was running. "After all the times we talked," he said ruefully, throwing his slight yet muscular arm around my shoulder. Already Eugene McCarthy, with much less to risk, had had the courage to risk it. He had exposed Johnson's soft underbelly, and now Kennedy was motioning to him to stand aside. Kennedy, who had refused to fracture the party, had split the antiwar movement. There was grumbling across the land and throughout the hastily chartered campaign plane...
...electorate would enter this year's Summer Games in Seoul not only with the home-field advantage but with a good shot at the gold medal. Just eleven months ago, widespread protests forced the Democratic Justice Party to accede to election reforms that put its continuation in power at risk. In December, with opposition forces deeply divided, voters kept the incumbent party in office after all, electing Roh Tae Woo, 55, to a five-year term as South Korea's President. Last week the same voters, in a somewhat different mood, presented Roh with a legislature controlled by the opposition...