Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With casual dress and manner, King also read a newly-written short story, "The Rainy Season," a comic-horror tale of an unsuspecting professor and his wife who summer at a dingy summer town in Maine called "Willow...
Bernice Buresh, Dayton Duncan, Godfrey Hodgson and Phillip van Niekerk will conduct research at the center, and at least two will teach short courses in their fields of expertise...
...East Oakland. Drugs, violence and profanity are outlawed. Mothers cannot leave the Mandela House grounds during their first 30 days; trips to doctors' appointments or court dates must be made with Thomas or one of her small staff. Residents are randomly tested for drugs. Eventually, women can earn short leaves, phone calls and family visits. School and jobs follow when the resident and Thomas agree it's time...
...changes, it says, U.S. graduates may soon be unable to compete with those from other countries for the world economy's increasingly complex jobs. "Recent improvements represent a significant national accomplishment," says Gregory Anrig, president of the Educational Testing Service, which administered the study for N.A.E.P. "But progress falls short of what the times require. Much more progress is needed for the economic development of our nation and the intellectual well-being of the next generation...
...bought and sold) was deemed sufficient. But after White House ethics chief C. Boyden Gray, who had also run afoul of the stricter rules, focused the zeal of the newly converted on the Baker portfolio (and conveniently deflected attention away from his own problems with the new rules), nothing short of complete divestiture would...