Word: sound
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Many experts welcomed most of Bennett's proposals as sound, if somewhat familiar. "Shoot," said Robert Saigh, director of public information for the Chicago public schools, "we're in step with all of that, and have been for years." Some educators, however, bristled at Bennett's suggestion that professionals from outside the teaching ranks -- business executives or retired military officers, for example -- might sometimes be brought in as grade school principals. Some critics also accused him of taking too rosy a ! view of the state of primary schooling and failing to address such questions as learning difficulties and the special...
Maybe so, but a growing number of people seem to be willing to suck into their lungs the smoke from cocaine in a far more powerful form known variously as base, baseball, gravel, rock, roxanne and, more commonly, crack. Crack is cocaine boiled down (it makes a cracking sound when heated) into crystalline balls that can be smoked. "Crack is like throwing gas on the cocaine fire," says Manhattan Special Prosecutor Sterling Johnson. A gram of coke costs about $100, but two beads, or pea-shaped pieces, of crack go for $10, enough to guarantee a single user...
...notorious local drug lord, Felix Mitchell, was carried by a gold-and-black hearse, drawn by two bay horses, followed by a long line of Rolls-Royces and luxury cars. Inside the Baptist church where Mitchell lay in his bronze coffin with glittering rings on his fingers, a sound track played Sade's pop hit, Smooth Operator. Mitchell, 32, had been stabbed to death in Leavenworth penitentiary while serving a life sentence for drug-trafficking conspiracy. But in the faces of young people who lined the funeral route were expressions...
...Horovitz, a playwright, is talking his way around Geller's peculiar character, which fascinates him. "We have one radio station," he says. "It could be anything -- it could be an ongoing bingo game. And what it is is music in its highest form. Geller is a dispenser of the sound of angels singing, the voice of Bach, Beethoven, Pachelbel. Whatever set of circumstances in his childhood made him come to sit in a darkened room and be such a misanthrope, there is a side to his soul that dances with the angels...
Soviet officials said the rescuers had saved 836 people and recovered 116 bodies; 282 were missing and presumed drowned. Nedyak refused to speculate about the cause of the accident. Both vessels, he said, were equipped with radar, and the Admiral Nakhimov was in sound condition. "Evidently," he said, "the ships are not at fault, people are at fault...