Word: upstreams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...better illustrate what makes a good school, TIME has chosen three as shining examples--two of them middle schools, the third a secondary school combining Grades 7 through 12. They were selected in part because middle schools are an especially tough test for educators who have to swim upstream against the changes of adolescence and the customary disappearance of parental involvement at that stage. These three have also succeeded despite a profile that seems to predict failure or mediocrity: a majority of minority students, limited resources and membership in a large school system. They, and thousands of other outstanding public...
...swimming upstream with a torrent coming down," said Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin '51, chair of the FAS Committee on Information Technology...
...Clinton played federal marshal in the Great Yellowstone Mine Shootout. The dispute began in the late 1980s as new techniques for locating pay dirt suddenly turned old claims on Henderson into a $1 billion lode of extractable ore. The glitch was that the peak is a scant 2.5 miles upstream from Yellowstone National Park. Environmental groups, warning that a megamine would poison the park's ecosystem, threatened massive lawsuits against Crown Butte, the company planning a round-the-clock extraction effort. Then the Administration stepped in, and after months of secret talks, Crown Butte agreed to swap the mine...
...swimming upstream with a torrent coming down," says Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin '53, the chair of the FAS Committee on Information Technology...
...causes us some concern, but it hasn't actually affected our operations in any way," Parker said. "For a few days we had our crew row upstream away from the pollution...