Word: term
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Florida has radically revised its phys-ed program to stress individual accomplishment. Every term, high school students must now take some physical activity -- golf, tennis, aerobics, weight training -- and they must pass a personal-fitness course to graduate. This month ten Florida high schools began offering Shape Up, one of several privately developed programs that are being adopted by educational systems around the nation. Students take six fitness tests and keep a food-and-drink diary for three days. The information is fed into a computer, which prints out an individual 20-page dossier, complete with sketches of where body...
During his first term, Reagan was occasionally pushed into greater involvement with his policies. Aides such as Edwin Meese, James Baker, Michael Deaver and William Clark would argue issues in his presence. The disputes forced Reagan to focus and drew him toward decisions. But in two years as chief of staff, Donald Regan has kept most of such controversy away from the President. Regan generally mediates the battles and presents the President with sanitized position papers that give little hint of the cacophony outside. Says one alumnus of the White House staff: "Regan sits through two-hour meetings, then gives...
...term is familiar by now, but the "necklace" is so benign a description that it barely hints at the horror of one of the world's most savage forms of execution. This is how it happens. In the townships of South Africa, militant black youths first capture a victim. Next they chop off his hands or tie them behind his back with barbed wire. Finally they place a gasoline-filled tire over the terrified victim's head and shoulders and set it ablaze. The melting rubber clings like tar to the victim's flesh, while flames and searing fumes enshroud...
...Masabata Loate, a leader of the 1976 antiapartheid student uprising, was slain with axes and knives near her Soweto home after serving a five-year prison term for treason. Loate, 29, had angered the comrades by speaking out strongly against necklaces...
...West Germany's national election campaign drew to a close this week, the ) Chancellor's reception was ardent everywhere his helicopter touched down. Political analysts predicted that Kohl, 56, would ride his newfound popularity to a second four-year term when voters cast their ballots this Sunday. The Allensbach poll forecast that Kohl's conservative coalition of the Christian Democratic Union, the Christian Social Union and the Free Democratic Party would win 53% of the vote, compared with 36.7% for the Social Democrats and 9.5% for the environmentalist Greens...