Word: truant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truant officer in Santa Ana told him that until he is 16 he must attend school rather than work full time...
...telephones and dictating machines that respond to spoken commands. The work stations can be linked with terminals at other stations so that managers can share data and exchange messages. Such a device might even find a customer in United Technologies Chief Gray. So far he is a conspicuous truant from his company's computer experiment. -By Alexander L. Taylor...
Andropov has persistently worked to shake up the torpor that afflicts Soviet institutions. While what Soviet citizens are calling Operation Trawl tracks down truant workers who show up late at the factory, Andropov is seeking to free his creaking bureaucracy of its habitual corruption. Since assuming office, he has reshuffled some 20 top officials and summarily dismissed six others. He pointedly chose Crime Buster Geidar Aliyev, 59, former party boss and KGB chief in Azerbaijan, as Deputy Premier. He also fired Leonid Brezhnev's crony and Interior Minister, Nikolai Shchelokov, and replaced him as head of the bribe-prone...
...school districts across the country have expressed interest in the gadget; the New York City and Chicago school systems recently purchased at least eight machines each. The $8,600 Telsols quickly earn their keep in schools that receive state funds on the basis of pupil attendance. Says Chicago Truant Officer Walter Bryant: "If we raise a district's attendance by nine students a day, we can pay for the machine in less than a year." Bryant believes that the computers can only supplement, not replace, regular truant officers. Officials still must track down children who outsmart the machines...
...handle these kids either. The agencies just let them go. They don't come in for appointments, you have to keep after them all the time, and no service agency is going to go to someone's house at 7:00 in the morning and personally take a truant child to school...