Word: stern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Malaurie is treated hospitably but not coddled. His hosts are communists, not liberals. The wind-chill factors of their lives dictate stern lessons and harsh measures. The aged are no longer left to die, but there are no discounts for senior citizens. Orphans go to the bottom of the social ladder, and the A.S.P.C.A. would not be pleased to learn that some polar dog-owners toughen their animals with hunger and the club...
...lessons were stern and clear for the San Jose Unified School District, one of the largest in Northern California. With 32,000 students, San Jose entered the fall term with a $5 million budget deficit and without the services of 154 teachers, who had been laid off during the summer. Ten elementary schools had been shut down to save money, creating shorter classes and crowded classrooms. With the depletion of the state surplus that since 1978 had buffered the effects of Proposition 13, San Jose had to renege on a promise made in January to offer a 6% pay increase...
...rights dispute). To the Chief Justice's right was the senior Justice, William Brennan, 76, back from his Nantucket summer home, his lively eyes on full alert behind his spectacles. The court's junior member, Sandra Day O'Connor, fresh from an African safari vacation, looked stern as a schoolmarm as the first hopeful lawyer began to argue his case. The 1982-83 term of the U.S. Supreme Court was under way, and for all the normality of its start, the year promises a work load that will leave the Justices physically and mentally spent come...
...Phillips 66 station, which Ray Long has owned since 1957, a sign more beseeching than stern reads: PLEASE DON'T ASK FOR CREDIT. Next door, Gary Fricke says his furniture store lost money last year, and business this year is off another 50%. Mike Riemenschneider, who bought the town's Jack and Jill Supermarket in 1979, has watched sales droop 15%. Says Vernon Waterman of the farm-implement business he runs with his wife Margaret: "I'm surviving on service, but losing money every day. I'm barely in business...
Despite the original disagreement, the two groups are now working together. John Stern '82-4. a member of PBH's steering committee, said yesterday. "It is not the optimal situation, but we're working with it and living with it," he added...