Word: schoolchildren
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There are now more than 3.5 million schoolchildren in the nation whose native language is not English. About 10% of them participate in federally supported bilingual programs at a current cost to the Treasury of $167 million a year. These programs, fashioned by local school districts, are not affected by Bell's ruling. But many school districts prefer intensive instruction in English as a second language to bilingual education, and they strongly objected to the proposed bilingual requirement...
...security experts, however, admit that many criminals are easily staying one step ahead of the precautions. Says Robert Campbell, president of Advanced Information Management Inc.: "I guess we're at the same stage as when we first started putting locks on the doors of our houses. They kept schoolchildren and stray animals out, but for the person who is really determined, there's still little or no challenge...
...fields and tennis courts (available). The city's most famous structures have always held a special power: Lincoln, white as a sheet, looking out from his inappropriate throne across the Reflecting Pool (drained now for repairs) toward the Washington Monument; the monument itself, an elongated ghost, ringed by schoolchildren, peering over the city as if to check on its prosperity...
Among those who attended were many schoolchildren, an interracial couple here and there, a sprinkling of college students and young professionals on their lunch break, and assorted religious men, women, and lay faithful. Gov. Edward King and a few local politicians came, but Mayor Kevin White, who said he'd be there, was vacationing in Bermuda instead...
...comprehensive casualty figures. But foreign observers judged the toll to be large. With most Iranian attacks aimed at military and industrial targets, civilian deaths in Iraq were probably lower than those in Iran, where Iraqi planes and artillery have indiscriminately bombarded residential areas. Tehran claimed that more than 130 schoolchildren were killed by Iraqi bombs in Kermanshah...