Word: summer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Khatami's new Participation Party and is one of the architects of Iranian detente with the West. In 1998, ignoring the howls of the hard-liners, Abdi traveled to Paris and met with former hostage Barry Rosen, achieving a reconciliation of sorts. A sign of Abdi's influence: last summer's student riots began with a protest against the closing of his newspaper, Salam, by conservative-controlled courts...
That's not a prediction. Please. But Microsoft stock rarely falls far or long before buyers swoop in. With Office 2000 released this past summer and doing well and the much anticipated Windows 2000 to be released in February, there's plenty of fuel to drive the stock higher...
Students at my school are members of the Youth Coalition and Hands Are Not for Hitting, as well as gay-straight alliances. One friend is starting a program to help needy children, and another volunteers as a translator at a low-income medical clinic. Last summer I spent eight weeks in Latin America as a public health worker. Yes, a lot of teenagers do use drugs, need antidepressants and flunk out of school. But what about the rest of us? Why not pay attention to the simple, progressive things teenagers are doing? Have a little faith...
...English literature. Todd Makurath, 20, decided not to return for his sophomore year at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina because he "wanted to be in a much more stimulating academic environment." Regaled with tales about Trinity College Dublin by some Irish students working at Myrtle Beach, S.C., on summer visas, he decided that he was going to do "whatever it took to get into the college." He bettered his SAT scores, even moved to Ireland for a few months to test the waters. Now in his first year at Trinity, he is delighted to be receiving "an Ivy League...
...would recommend a Canadian education to others. Peter Deitz, 20, a Hastings, N.Y., resident majoring in Canadian history at McGill, allows that he is "very grateful, very content with the choice that I made." In his first two years in Quebec, he improved his French enough to work last summer for an Internet company in Paris...