Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Games to South Korea. Said I.O.C. Spokeswoman Michele Verdier last week: "The Games have been awarded to Seoul, and there is absolutely no change in our position." Only an "act of war," she said, might change the committee's view. Verdier has solid precedent on her side: the quadrennial Summer Games have been suspended only three times -- in 1916, 1940 and 1944 -- and in each case because of a world conflict...
...past six years, South Korea has labored to make the 1988 Summer Olympic Games -- the 24th of the modern Olympiad -- into a statement of the country's arrival as a sophisticated and confident middle power. But amid last week's tear gas and flaming Molotov cocktails, the linked rings of the Olympic flag had become not only a symbol of national aspirations but also an emblem of international worry. Around the world, a growing number of sports and political figures were voicing concern about whether South Korea would be able to stage the Games free from boycotts or violence...
...government responded by shutting down more than 50 major universities two to three weeks before summer vacation was to begin. But many students refused to accept the chance for an early holiday, remaining on or near the campus for nightly antigovernment rallies. In perhaps the most momentous development, the protests for the first time received the support of segments of South Korean society other than students. Housewives, businessmen and assorted onlookers shouted encouragement and occasionally joined the marchers, who in many cases were their sons and daughters. In Pusan, the country's second largest city and the scene...
Still not happy with the world of Summer School? That's nothing new, according to a government course entitled "Utopias...
Last year, the three most popular summer school departments were Economics, Expository, Creative and Professional Writing, and the English as a Second Language program. Psychology courses ranked fourth in attracting students, with biology coming in fifth and government sixth...