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City and school authorities reacted last week with stiff security measures: ID cards for students, metal detectors at building entrances and classrooms equipped with silent alarms. But controversy flared over one provision: students who attack teachers will be expelled. Although the schools' dropout rate is about 37%, state law guarantees even thugs an education until they...
...railing gap which caused the entire problem was simply patched up this spring. Workmen installed stiff wire grids on all the railings around the building the week after the accident at a cost of approximately $10,000, according to Parsons...
...mingle with the crowds on the field. You feel the blood coming back into your feet. Your feet feel like dancing. Penguins would grow stiff in this cold. But you are as warm as Florida beach. This is the way it should...
Another bill, expanding the Ethics in Government Law, has passed the Senate but is facing stiff opposition in the House. It would impose the same one-year lobbying restrictions that apply to people leaving the Executive Branch on * those who leave the Legislative Branch. Some of the most effective opposition has been mounted by staffers who see their future careers hindered. Persuading Congress to whittle away any of its exemptions will be difficult. Hyde notes that the tradition of a double standard runs deep in Washington and Congress has never shown much enthusiasm for curbing its own privileges. Introducing legislation...
...times, a desire to please too many people, and insecurity about his age. He did not capitalize on what could have been his biggest asset -- the vigor that stood in contrast to the sclerotic dusk of the Reagan era. He bottled up his puckish humor and came off as stiff. He eschewed well-tailored suits that could have turned him into a hip-looking heartthrob with a brain, preferring a conservative blue outfit that made him look less a candidate for President than the pilot of his chartered...