Word: summering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge school employee since 1956, McGrath first taught elementary school, then served terms as coordinator of primary education, director of elementary education and assistant superintendent of administration before becoming interim superintendent this past summer...
While the economy grew at a relatively modest 2.6% annual rate during the third quarter, the expansion actually amounted to 3.2% if the effects of the summer drought are excluded. That level of growth, while not quite inflationary in normal times, is straining against a shortage of workers and factory capacity. Unemployment in the U.S. has remained at low levels, though the Government reported last week that the jobless rate for November inched up to 5.4%, compared with 5.3% the previous month. Factories were operating at 84% of total capacity, the highest level since February...
...year experiment aimed at improving the townspeople's coronary fitness by teaching them the rudiments of healthy living. The basic rules: throw away the cigarettes, control blood pressure and, perhaps most important, bring down blood-cholesterol levels through diet and exercise programs. Among the first results late this summer: an average 8.3% decline in cholesterol levels...
...recommended changes in diet. Some hotels and restaurants now offer low-fat, low-cholesterol menus. Sunshine Biscuits, maker of Hydrox cookies, is no longer using coconut oil in its products and soon plans to eliminate palm oil, both of which are cholesterol- boosting saturated fats. By next summer an American Heart Association seal of approval may be carried on foods that meet its heart-healthy guidelines...
...late summer of 1975, after an all-day negotiating session in Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's Jerusalem office, Henry Kissinger approved a midnight addition to an agreement with Israel. The U.S., he pledged, would not "recognize or negotiate with" the Palestine Liberation Organization until the P.L.O. accepted Israel's right to exist. Washington later added another condition, that the P.L.O. renounce terrorism. With the exception of occasional clandestine contacts and the publicized breach that cost Andrew Young his U.N. ambassadorship, the stricture has been U.S. policy ever since...