Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, each plan establishes minimum teacher salaries and teacher evaluations and set up a standardized state-wide minimum skills test for students. However, the Governor's plan establishes teh most state control over local school committees...
Mickey (Keith Carradine) is said to be a pathological liar. But after he ankles the mental hospital quite uncured of this condition, evidence accumulates that he really was a jet-fighter pilot. And a CIA spy in the Soviet Union. And a poetry teacher at Yale. The problem is not with him but with a world that refuses to accommodate improbable realities...
...daze. "I ran away and the plane blew up and it knocked me down." He was hospitalized with minor cuts and burns. His father, also hurled from the cabin, was severely burned. Said the son: "God must have been with Dad and me." Robert Miggins, 45, a high school teacher in Plymouth, Minn., ran from the wreckage with his clothes afire. He suffered burns over 90% of his body. The three were the only survivors. Sixty-eight died, making it the worst U.S. air tragedy since 1982, when a Boeing 727 was caught in a wind shear in New Orleans...
...grand marshals were urged to designate "citizen representatives" in their places, and more than a dozen did so. Some of the designees were already celebrities, including Astronaut Sally Ride (California), Marathoner Alberto Salazar (Oregon) and Chef Paul Prudhomme (Louisiana). Others were honored for little-noted achievements, including Arkansas Teacher of the Year Alfreeda Marshall. Altogether, final plans for the parade called for 57 floats, 43 marching bands, 37 equestrian units and one dogsled from Alaska pulled by 21 Huskies...
...horrified to discover that students were allowed to wander around town by themselves after classes. She forbade Olga to wear tight jeans and bright tops like the other girls. During vacations, she kept Olga from playing with the children of Cambridge acquaintances. Says Fay Black, then a part-time teacher at Olga's school: "Her mother clung to her like a warden to a prisoner. The child's only hope was to go back to school...