Word: rundown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Principal Nora Brandt, elected by the Bryan faculty to lead them in restructuring, began with the basics, repainting the rundown stucco building and starting a "Bryan Pride" campaign to boost children's self-image and team spirit. To pave the way for improvement, she hired several forceful, imaginative teachers. Today literacy is paramount at Bryan, where the student body is one-third white, one-third black and one-third Hispanic. Teachers stress writing and the classics. Each month 400 children are bused to the Dade County Public Library; parents receive a "reading tips" newsletter...
Harvard blew a chance to send its fans home happy in the bottom of the seventh. With two outs and men on first and second, Jakimczyk lined a single to left. But junior rightfielder Ted Decareau rounded third base too far, and was caught in a rundown that killed the rally and sent the game into extra innings...
There is interest, and people do want to see our situation resolved, the crisis resolved. And that is a great encouragement and in the meeting of the Board of Overseers, I was given an opportunity, as I said, of giving a rundown ten minutes or so, which is quite considerable given the...time...