Word: school-yard
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...sort of unilateral school-yard bullying Mr. Whitman recommends is precisely the sort of tactic most inimical to a liberal free-trading order; the assorted euphemisms of "fair trade" "reciprocity" and "objective targets" often mask crude attempts at protectionism and managed trade...
...program wins high marks for the concept. Strange written messages begin appearing on the computer screens and notebooks of a group of school friends. The messages emanate from an unseen supernatural being who communicates only in writing and helps the kids solve mysteries (in the first few episodes, a wave of backpack thefts by a cult of school-yard video-game enthusiasts). Forcing the junior detectives to read and write -- and perform other word tasks, like deciphering anagrams -- in order to solve mysteries is an ingenious way of getting young viewers to treat reading as something other than a chore...
...school-yard brawl, the opening provocation was a taunt: "Independence!" But within 36 hours, the war of words between the republic of Slovenia and forces of the Yugoslav People's Army had escalated into a real fight, with the two sides trading lethal blows that left at least 40 dead and many more injured...
...Pont Co. produces an acetal resin used to make the Seattle Foot, a flexible, lifelike prosthesis. Among well-satisfied customers is Bill Demby, a former high school basketball player who had both legs amputated below the knee after being caught in a rocket attack in Vietnam. In a widely broadcast Du Pont TV commercial, Demby is shown taking a jump shot in a school-yard game...
...teachers want a raise of 10% this year, retroactive to July 1, 1988, and an 8% increase in each of the next two years. They also want to be relieved of school-yard duty and given a greater voice in running the schools. The district is offering a 21.5% increase over three years. Unless the walkout is resolved, it could postpone graduation for about 35,000 seniors and delay class promotions for most of Los Angeles' 594,000 public-school students. The teachers' cause got an apparent boost last week when Governor George Deukmejian announced that the state...