Word: sts
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...March 3, President Bok selects Charles P.Whitlock to become the next Dean of the College inan uncontroversial nomination. Later that month, adecision to discontinue the Staff TuitionScholarship (STS) for teaching fellows (TFs)prompts graduate student TFs to unionize. On March23, the organized union calls a one-day boycott ofclasses, urging TFs not to teach and students notto attend classes. However, the strike nevermaterializes, and the University does notreconsider its elimination of the STS program...
...what it was getting when it cobbled the check out of funds targeted for food, medical care and other basic needs for the hard-pressed, 10,700-member community, which suffers from 80 percent unemployment. The DNC may duck this bullet, thanks to a tribal faction that insi sts its business committee had no authority to cut the check in the first place. For its part, the DNC says that if the tribe won't take back the money, it will be spent on Native American voter registration and voter participation activities...
...near Ekaterinburg in 1991 were those of Nicholas and his family. At the end of August, U.S. and Russian experts announced that DNA testing had proved conclusively that one skeleton was that of Nicholas, thereby clearing the way for the family's interment in St. Petersburg's Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul...
Russia's last Czar, Nicholas II, and his family will be reburied next February in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Petersburg. The family was slain by the Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg in 1918, and their remains (minus those of son Alexei and daughter Anastasia) were exhumed in 1992; DNA tests later confirmed the imperial identities...
...March, his experiments were carried aboarrd the Shuttle Endeavor STS-67. However, because of a refrigeration problem, the crystals didn't grow very well...