Word: sit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graders. In Minneapolis, for example, kindergartners must answer a set of 56 verbal questions put to them on a one-to-one basis (last year 13% failed). Many Connecticut and Michigan youngsters face similar tests. But only Georgia asks all its tots -- in both public and private schools -- to sit down, No. 2 pencils in hand, and fill in the blanks...
There is the mystery of Bechstein's spiritual state. Which life will become his model, that of his father--a lord of the underworld--or of Cleveland--an insouciant motorcylist? The two sit on opposite ends of Bechstein's spirtual seesaw. His father, head of a numbers racket and prostitution ring, is willing to forget the past in order to enjoy the present, and the world be damned. Cleveland, who would like to get involved in the same underworld life, hangs out at the Cloud Factory--the name he assigns to one of Pittsburgh's omnipresent smokestacks--his thoughts often...
President Bok, a voting member of both bodies, has said several times that if the Corporation were in the position of disagreeing with an action of the Overseers, he would counsel the members of both bodies to sit down and discuss their concerns in an informal...
...here that the next few momths will be no time for complacency, no time to sit back and congratulate ourselves. The Soviets have rarely before--and not at all in more than three decades--left a country, once occupied. They have often promised to leave, but rarely in their history, and then only under pressure from the West, have they actually done...
...didn't want to sit on a lead," senior Mike Horvath said, "and we were able to pull a strong race without relying on an opponent's challenge to push...