Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...launch was textbook perfect. The 21-ft.-long unarmed Tomahawk cruise missile arched gracefully away a week ago Sunday from the destroyer U.S.S. Merrill, stationed off the California coast near San Clemente Island. It sped toward its target in Tonopah, Nev., 375 miles away but, to the chagrin of the Navy, never made it. The air-breathing projectile began behaving erratically above sparsely populated regions of Southern California and crashed harmlessly into Los Padres National Forest...
...Oregon children are taught to write decently, interested parents in other states may demand the same for their youngsters. Educators and textbook publishers would be likely to listen. An improved hand would be a boon to American culture. The Getty/Dubay instruction books show that the teaching of proper handwriting evokes children's innate sense of visual order and beauty. It gives children an eye for good design. As Getty and Dubay put it in their foreword in one book in the series: "The various adaptations of italic handwriting are infinite. As handwriting reflects one's personality, we recommend...
...visitors finally broke through on a textbook style give-and-go, with Scott Fusco dishing the puck to Shayne Kukulowicz and getting a back just in time to lift it into the twines for a 1-0 lead...
Robinson lived in Mather House last semester during his stay at Harvard. Before that, he taught for a decade at Yale, in addition to stints at Cornell and Stanford. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he is the author of a textbook on Anglo-Saxon, two bibliographies of writings on Old English, and more than 50 articles on various topics concerning the English language...
...workers, prompting charges that management had interfered unfairly with the drive. The department store's recent expansion into Boston provoked cries that it was becoming more of an impersonal business corporation than a student-oriented cooperative. These criticisms were intensified by the common complaint that the University's main textbook store was taking advantage of students by exacting monopoly prices...