Word: summering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time being, the new patrols will be staffed by the police officers on other shifts working overtime. Healy said that he could not hire new officers until students graduate from the city's police academy this summer...
...Some students must go to summer school just to fill requirements. This puts the students in the position of paying more and getting less," Langley said...
...week a Texas parole board decided that happy endings are only for movies. By a 2-to-1 vote, the board refused to release Randall Adams, whose plight director Errol Morris publicized in his documentary The Thin Blue Line, which has enjoyed a cultlike popularity since its release last summer. Despite a lower-court recommendation at a hearing last December that Adams be retried, and even though the companion who accused him has all but confessed to the murder, the board concluded that the heinous nature of the crime dictated that Adams should remain in prison...
...future may come sooner than expected because of the 1992 Summer Olympics. Along with the 150-plus hours of over-the-air coverage it will provide, NBC has announced plans to offer separate packages of events for PPV. The prospect of large revenues from the Olympics is likely to spur more cable systems to acquire PPV technology before then...
...manufacturers promote their products at crank-it-up contests that rival drag racing as the hot rodders' sport of choice. Contestants pit their sonically souped-up cars against one another for cash, trophies and recognition. Last summer in Laredo, Texas, Tom Fichter of Houston broke the world's record when his $27,000 system pounded out Flashdance . . . What a Feeling at 154.7 decibels, more than twice as loud as the sound of a jet taking...