Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smallest group of students in at least five years is attending Harvard summer school this year, despite earlier predictions that enrollment would be among the largest in recent years...
With final figures unavailable until tomorrow, officials of the nation's oldest summer school said yesterday about 4800 students have registered so far-- a 4 percent drop from last year's 4998 and below the 5030 that officials estimated would enroll this year...
During the chill days of late winter, the U.S. economy slowed so sharply that some experts feared a new recession might be under way. Summer officially arrived last week, and the 30-month-old recovery seemed in much improved health. The latest economic indicators showed that business activity is finally picking up. A drop in the prime rate gave promise of further growth ahead. Said Charles Schultze, the chief economic adviser to President Carter: "The decline in interest rates will help stimulate the economy. I think it will be successful in keeping us out of a recession...
...mean most to me." So, apparently, does everyone else. Lucy Spenser, who writes a Miss Lonelyhearts column for the magazine under the pen name Cindi Coeur, is having a sporadic affair with her editor Hildon and trying to figure out why her old friend Les dumped her. Lucy's summer is further disrupted by the arrival of her niece Nicole, a teenage star of the TV soap opera Passionate Intensity. Others follow in Nicole's sudsy wake, including a writer working on a novelization of Nicole's program and an artist making models for a Nicole doll that must...
...rites of summer! Baseball and sunbathing. Picnics by the old swimming hole. Heat prostration and killer mosquitoes. Steven Spielberg movies. For the fifth consecutive summer, this tireless auteur-mogul has placed his name on a fantasy adventure or two designed to turn sentient adults into wonder-lusting children. Spielberg directed neither of the inevitable hits before us: he wrote the story and served as an executive producer of The Goonies; he shepherded Back to the Future toward production, then pretty much left the film's creators on their merry own. But his candy-smirched fingerprints are evident on both projects...