Word: unheard
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When he took office in 1971, the idea of clinical education where a student learns by practicing law either in the classroom or in an actual courtroom situation was unheard of. Now, there are established programs for this kind of training, including the Introduction to Trial Advocacy Program and the Legal Services Institute...
...coast, where two Israeli resort settlements have sprung up between Eilat, at the top of the Gulf of Aqaba, and Sharm el Sheikh, near the Sinai's southern tip. The new spas, havens for Israeli tourists, foreign sightseers and hippies, are tolerant to a degree unheard of in Israel. Sunbathers routinely strip naked on the placid beaches. Hashish, smuggled from Egypt, is freely available. Many of the Israeli hoteliers and other developers would like to stay on after April 1982, but the Egyptian entrepreneurs waiting in the wings have resisted all proposals to set up possible joint ventures because...
...main causes of the problems for the thrift institutions are double-digit inflation and interest rates, which were both unheard of in 1831 when the first S and L in the U.S., the Oxford Provident Building Association, was founded in Philadelphia. The nation's S and Ls and mutual savings banks today hold $650 billion in long-term mortgages, nearly three-fourths of the U.S. total. But about one-third of those were written within the past decade at interest rates of 8¾% or less. Moreover, during the past two years the costs to the thrifts of acquiring...
Soviet students are in class six hours a day, six days a week. Because no typewriters are available, research papers are almost unheard of except for the "diploma work"--something akin to a senior thesis. Books are in very short supply. As a result, Soviet students do very little studying, and most learning occurs in the classroom. Cheating is widespread. Most professors look the other way, preferring not to fail students likely to have powerful parents and aware that their own records will look better if all of their students pass...
...said, was excited at making the cheerleading squad at her private high school in New Jersey. She studies hard when she is on location and says she got two A's and two B's in her last marking period. (Director Zeffirelli did the unheard-of, at Teri Shields' insistence, and closed down the production of his film Endless Love three times while Brooke was acting, once for her exams and twice for previous commercial commitments...