Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paradoxically, students say, the large size of the high school (2656 students registered in September) is the system's strength and its weakness. "It has a large variety of courses and lots of different kinds of people, but because the system is so large, you can lose students who will then float around for four years--it's a Catch-22 situation," Doyle says...
...strength of its 3-1 victory in Friday's series opener, Clarkson (19-9-2) moves on to Boston Garden and next weekend's ECAC Final Four. For Harvard (10-14-3), it's time to turn in the equipment...
...joined by the President and Nancy Reagan, led the 600-person guest list. Princess Caroline, who took a turn on the dance floor with the President, shed a tear when he toasted her mother. Princess Grace, said Reagan, "possessed not only an outward beauty but an inward character, sincerity, strength of purpose and loving-kindness." When the last of the revelers had jetted and li-moed home, more than $1 million had been raised for the foundation...
LONG BEFORE America's oldest monthly changed its look and format, there were long faces and knowing smiles in the magazine world. Rumor had it that Lewis Lapharm. Harper's former editor, had regained his job on the strength of a memo he wrote to Harper's board which outlined a proposal for a drastic change in the magazine's ideology. There were whispers that the economically troubled monthly was going to become a glorified op-ed page in an effort to become more commercially successful...
...result of a childhood accident. Walker lost the sight in one eye, and writes that she felt disfigured and ugly for a long time afterward. It is through the bond with her daughter, her own creativity, and the strength she has found from the stories of her (female) ancestors. Walker writes, that she has finally learned to accept herself as complete and even beautiful. She dedicates the book to her daughter. Rebecca, in a few lines that sum up the creative process through which she has discovered herself and her heritage...