Word: ryder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William Ryder, director of human services at MCI-Billerica, says the average term for prisoners there is about 10 months, with 40 percent of the prisoners getting out in less than 90 days. Issued navy work pants and a light-blue mechanic's shirt, prisoners at Billerica spend 17 to 21 hours a day confined to a space large enough only for a bunk bed, toilet and sink...
...classes are geared to ninth grade and up, but for the two-thirds of the prisoners who are operating below the high school level, teachers sometimes use Apple computers to provide reinforcement and practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, Ryder says...
...give a guy a simple exerqise on paper he'll often say: 'C'mon man, this is for third graders. I'm not doing that.' But if you give him an equivalent exercise on a computer, it somehow legitimizes it. He thinks 'It's a computer; it's hightech,'" Ryder says...
...Crimson started the night off right with a sweep of the 400-yd. medley relay. Tri-Captain Peter Egan and teammates Dan Sinkowitz, Paul Ryder and Bob Morrison finished in 3:36.00 to grab first. Another Harvard quartet--Rob Perkins, Clay Miller, Lars Reierson and Keith Kaplan--came in a close second at 3:40.92. Brown claimed the third and fourth spots, but got no points for their effort...
...individual medley boasted similar results. Crimson swimmers Dave Berkoff and Paul Ryder grabbed first and second, with Mark Brilliant of Brown finishing a full four seconds later...