Word: terrel
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...DIED. TERREL BELL, 74, Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of Education; of pulmonary fibrosis; in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bell's department--initially targeted for elimination--survived after he helped engineer an influential report, A Nation at Risk, which sparked a drive for educational reform...
...TERREL BELL, Secretary of Education under Reagan. How he heard: Call from chief of staff James Baker to his car phone while on his way to speech. What he did: Watched at home with his wife. How it felt: "I was disappointed It was the first time the Reagan Cabinet was appearing publicly. And ((Baker said)) we'll pass this around, but he never...
...early results at Sunday's final looked like an all-military competition as Army and Navy each scored early victories. Army took the 4x400 meter relay while Navy's Johnny Fox won the 400 and teammate Anthony Terrell took the triple jump. Terrel, who also placed first in the long jump, was named the meet's outstanding male performer...
Silber graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, received his doctorate from Yale and maintained a mercurial profile as a philosophy professor and later as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Texas. He almost succeeded Terrel Bell as Secretary of Education under Reagan, a job he craved, but lost out to his friend William Bennett...