Word: upone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jonas, who played twelve games last year, proved that he can be a reliable goaltender when called upon. Despite allowing two goals on long-range shots at the end of the first period and another close range shot went through the five-hole in the second, Jonas recovered and looked strong in the third...
However, this issue is one that the council must discuss with care. They cannot simply ship Healy out without creating the impression of a negative working atmosphere for his successor. And Healy has an impressive record to rest upon, having made Cambridge one of the best-run cities in the country. If he continues to work as city manager it is important that the council and manager cooperate on civil terms. The council has as much to lose from Healy's experience as they do to gain from the sort of "rubber-stamp" city manager some of its members desire...
America's students are suffering the greater injustice. As America looks increasingly upon standardized testing as "the way," students watch as school districts and educators hopelessly abandon approaches and curricula germane to classroom creativity...
Each week the V.I.P. writers have a meeting to decide upon a lame excuse to show half-naked women. White-slavery ring? Trouble on a swimsuit photoshoot? The owner of a lingerie company under siege? Good enough. The writers' only requirement is to include one sexy scene and one action scene every 10 pages. But they don't even need to bother coming up with these flimsy premises; as bodyguard Vallery Irons, Lee wears 5-in. stilettos and a spandex minidress just to go to the office. "Val's wardrobe is her interpretation of being able to be everything...
...York's focus is as sweeping as Ourselves' is intimate. "New York was based upon greed," says the late Brendan Gill in the 10-hour documentary. Unlike the colonies settled by religious persecutees (and persecutors), New Netherland was run by the mammoth Dutch West India Co. (Imagine Microsoft building Seattle.) And the city remained dedicated to the godless buck as it became British, then American--though not always for the best, as Jacob Riis' horrifying photographs of immigrant poverty powerfully illustrate...