Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...junior Linda Suhs. Costello broke both of her school records in the breaststroke events, originally set last season. In the 100-yd. breaststroke, Costello's time of 1:04.69 earned her a victory, as did her 2:19.58 mark in the 200 breaststroke. Both times qualified her for next summer's Olympic trials as well as the NCAAs...
Matthew E. Stasior '87, an associate consultant at Bain Consulting worked for Salomon Brothers during the summer prior to his senior year, but was not "in love with the hours that financial analysts work" and also did not like the idea of living in New York...
...help remedy the situation, crash courses for newlyweds and parents-to-be are being conducted across the country. Bookstores are stocking up on child- care books. Schools and summer camps teach children how to dress, cook and do household chores. Says Mao: "We ask mothers to offer a childhood that is more than just chocolate plus toys, to teach the child to be courteous, collective- oriented and self-reliant. That way, they will not become little emperors." What are parents to do when a child throws a tantrum? Do not give in to blackmail, says Fang. "Let the child...
...place any faith in Steven Spielberg films like E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the visitors from outer space are benign and friendly folk. But several recently reported episodes have been more sinister. High on the best-seller lists this past summer stood Communion by Whitley Strieber, previously known mainly as a writer of fantasies (The Wolfen, Warday), who vehemently describes as a "true story" his chilling account of being spirited onto a spaceship by a pack of 3-ft.-high "visitors." When they proposed sticking a needle into his brain, he recalls, one of them casually asked...
...mother made a doting gesture that transformed his life. Stephen, then 12, had made a new friend named Jamie Hammerstein, son of Oscar, the lyricist of Very Warm for May, and was invited to the family farm in Doylestown, Pa., for a weekend. The weekend turned into a summer and, not long after, Mrs. Sondheim bought a house in Doylestown so Stephen could live there year-round. She continued to commute to Manhattan, often stayed there during the week and on weekends typically brought along guests. But as Jamie Hammerstein recalls, "by Christmas, Stephen was more a Hammerstein than...