Word: state
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your article is very reminiscent of what I remember from the early '80s. Kids are kids wherever you go. They just need a little more protection these days--sometimes from themselves. I am glad to see that Webster Groves High is trying to be proactive without creating a police state within the school. STACY DURAN GOLDEN Valley Village, Calif...
DIED. DAISY BATES, 84, civil rights leader whose memoir, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, won a 1988 American Book Award; in Little Rock, Ark. During rioting in 1957 over the integration of Central High, Bates advised the nine black students. With her husband, she founded the Arkansas State Press--a key voice for the movement. Her crusade, she said, "had a lot to do with removing fear that people have for getting involved...
...State Appropriations for Higher Education...
Nefra Faltas, 20, a human-biology and philosophy major, could have gone to the University of Virginia as an in-state student three years ago but chose to attend the University of Toronto instead. "It was time," she decided, "to be exposed to something completely different." Rachel Polner, 21, a Denver resident, considered several institutions, including Princeton, but stopped looking at U.S. schools after the University of York in England made her an unconditional offer. She knows England well, having vacationed there during her childhood, and was pleased that she would be allowed to concentrate entirely on her chosen subject...
Clinton's challenge looks easy, though, compared with the one faced by his Chinese counterparts. "WTO membership will open China up to competition, which will mean a number of industries that survive only through state subsidies and heavy tariffs are bound to collapse," says TIME Beijing bureau chief Jaime Florcruz. "And that will increase structural unemployment." The more hard-line elements in China's leadership have slowed economic reforms precisely out of fear that the inevitable unemployment will spark social chaos. So by signing on to the WTO deal, Jiang has come down firmly on the side of the reformists...