Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beautiful to row along the river in the fall, especially in the warm weather," she said...
Down in the first half 13-7, the Tigers roared back with a 14 point third quarter to beat the Bears (2-2, 0-2). The Princeton squad experienced a second-half surge for the second week in a row, and its record now stands at 4-0 overall...
...three years of work," says 13-year-old Ariel Pena, who tried unsuccessfully to opt out of his school's bilingual class. Children from grades 5 through 8 were mixed in one classroom. "We had the same math book, back to page one, for two years in a row," adds Pena, a plaintiff in the suit. The state will fight the suit on the grounds that many children need more than three years of bilingual classes, but it will now review cases more carefully...
...spend most of the day in mainstream classes. And then, in just 45 minutes, Cao must speed them through the baffling vocabulary they have encountered. Energy, gasoline, electron, molecule, dilute, bubble, wave, atom--all new words to be explained in Mandarin. And, for a slender youth in the front row, in Cantonese. In three years, under state rules, newcomers are to be fluent enough to graduate into all-day mainstream classes. In practice, few are-and schools are caught between researchers who decry the unrealistic expectations and parents who blame the bilingual programs for not fulfilling them...
...celebrate that anniversary, the school boasts an entering class of more women than men for the second year in a row...