Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, that pedagogical approach was thrown out with mandatory school prayer and other relics of the conservative, unmissed past. And the results of changes in educational direction are glaringly obvious from the poll's findings: American adults may have scored poorly on the survey, but Americans in the 18 to 24-year-old category did even worse, placing last out of nine countries, including Mexico, Canada, Great Britain and Japan...
...midnight, after the convention sessions closed, most delegates and attendees were to be found at the enormous parties thrown every night by and for big names. For instance, on Monday New York Gov. Mario Cuomo threw a party for his and the Massachusetts delegates complete with Nathan's hotdogs and Steve's ice cream bars, and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young gave an elegant invitation-only party...
...favored advance notification, continued to push for the measure. The bill's sponsors cited a 1985 study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that more than half of the 2.2 million workers involved in large-scale layoffs each year received one day's notice or less before being thrown out of work. Had the law been in effect over the past two years, said its backers, more than 1.6 million laid-off workers would have received advance word. Said Robert Byrd, the Senate Democratic leader: "It's not a labor issue. It's a fairness issue...
...figure that is all the more impressive in view of his reputation for taking "impossible" cases. His trick is to combine meticulous research with show-biz instincts. In the 1940s he sued the concessionaire in a New York stadium on behalf of a man hit by a soda bottle thrown from the stands. The vendor argued that nothing could have been done to prevent the injury. Throughout the trial, Lipsig kept on his desk a mysterious brown bag that tantalized the jurors. Not until his final argument did he open the bag to dramatically take from it a paper...
...Mohammed Ali Hammadi listened calmly last week as a prosecutor read the charges against him. Hammadi is accused of participating in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA Boeing 727 and the killing of U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem, 23, who was savagely beaten, shot in the head and then thrown onto the tarmac at Beirut airport. The Reagan Administration sought Hammadi's extradition after his arrest last year at Frankfurt airport, but Bonn refused, partly because of pressure by Shi'ite militants holding two West German hostages in Beirut...