Word: stack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greater stress on learning fundamentals. More are sending their children to the preschool programs that launch four-year-olds armed with the alphabet. Schools are responding by fortifying the play-oriented kindergarten curriculum with weighty matters like arithmetic and reading. "Parents now want their children to bring home a stack of papers," says Marilyn Arwood, principal of Waynewood Elementary School in Fairfax County, Va. "They want hard proof that the child has learned something...
...With a stack of about 40 copies of this month's Penthouse--featuring her in a dozen-page spread--by her side, Jeanette Starion, a 20-year-old model and aspiring actress from Copenhagen, autographed the magazine for anyone...
...Compact shelving, which involves installing new hardware. Stacks are put on rollers with just enough maneuvering room to permit access to one-stack at a time. The Law School's 1.4 million volume Langdell Library has been able to install compact, shelving successfully and came the burden there, as has the 160,000 volume Tozzer Library in the Peabody Museum...
...wonderful thing about the place is that it has source material on so many topics and historical figures," says Porter University Professor W. Jackson Bate '39, who says he has been using Widener since he was a 17-year-old stack attendant and knows the nine-story building "blindfolded...
Some applications are denied very quickly, and a select few are almost instant admits. Still others receive hours of painstaking attention, but roughly half of the stack gets no farther than Geraghty's first reading. An application must receive at least two favorable readings before the office extends an offer of admission; when the initial readers disagree, the application goes before a larger panel...