Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...track to limbo around two other cars. He won with Dale Earnhardt as close to his bumper as a license plate. Gordon says he drives without fear and that there is a point in every race when "desire overrides everything, and if you really want it badly, special things happen...
...Nothing special happens to Gordon in Bristol. He gets into a minor wreck and finishes in sixth place, with his car literally duct-taped together. The week after that, in Goody's 500 in Martinsville, Va., he stays close enough to win but finishes a frustrating third. For the first time in four years, race fans who despise him are smiling...
...tried to cover both these issues fully, and we've also explored such topics as the Internet, attention-deficit disorder, cliques and gangs, homework, hunting, and ways to create better schools and students. After the Conyers incident last week, we decided to do another special report, this one focusing on how to spot and treat troubled kids...
...discovered this on a recent Thursday when I was officially principal of P.S. 154, on West 127th Street in Harlem. I learned it from Elizabeth Jarrett, 41, the school's everyday principal, a soft-spoken former special-ed teacher who has turned the school around from one that was getting failing grades only three years ago to one that is bright and cheerful and scoring above the state average...
...heaven's sake, America--grow up! An incredulous world looks on while you self-indulgently natter on and on about the right to bear arms [SPECIAL REPORT, May 3]. You prattle about how to sensitize parents, teachers and school counselors to the warning signals of impending mass killings by ticked-off teenagers with easy access to assault weapons. Do what the rest of us have done after similar massacres in Canada, Britain and New Zealand: immediately pass stringent gun-control laws. Trust us, it works. Just do it. MERLIE PAPADOPOULLOS Montreal...