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...high school students in New York State, the Regents exams are a crucial rite of passage: doing well greatly improves their chances of getting into college. Last week thousands of students learned that much of their cramming would go to waste, when the New York Post splashed the answer sheet to the Regents chemistry exam across its front page. An angry state education commissioner, Thomas Sobol, postponed the test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: High School Exam Scam | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...search for solutions to the day caredilemma, the University recently consulted withStride Rite head Arnold S. Hiatt '48, a HarvardBoard of Overseers member whose companyestablished a model child care system more thantwo decades...

Author: By Jennifer Griffin, | Title: Dollar Issues | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...progressive, just realistic," Hiattsays. "We've been in the child care business for18 years now." At Stride Rite, unions have not hadto bargain for child care because of Hiatt'sinitiatives. "We've never been approached by aunion [about child care]," Hiatt says. "It's neverbeen a union issue. It's been a management issue...

Author: By Jennifer Griffin, | Title: Dollar Issues | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...Traditionally, we see drinking in college as a rite of passage. It is condoned in a covert way," Valle says, adding that people who drink heavily in college should ask themselves, "`Is this something I'm going to grow up with...

Author: By Chip Cummins, | Title: Alcohol Use Now Leads to Problems Later | 5/12/1989 | See Source »

Opening day is more than just a rite of spring; it's also a fan's greatest delight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Sox Stop Indians, 5-2 | 4/11/1989 | See Source »

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