Word: vein
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...line, but ignores the interests of most of the community. Schools need broader organizations linking the support and input of business leaders, civic activists, school alumni, and neighborhood residents. Here, as elsewhere, public educators can learn from private schools that have traditionally mastered the art of tapping every potential vein of support, financial and otherwise. The importance of this link for public schools intensifies as a growing proportion of an ever-graying population loses parental ties to the schools. Already the cries are heard in South Florida and other retirement intensive areas: "We have no kids in school, why should...
...truth to offer about the Midwest in the '30s than Margaret Bourke-White's camera, but there are no photographs of Eden. This show allows us to see what Wood's assets were: mainly, the deep lyricism rising from his certainty that he had discovered a vein of imagery no other painter had mined...
...similar vein Arbatov argues that the Soviet SS 20 threat is pure propaganda, whereas the Soviet have reason to be concerned in reality about the deployment later this year of Cruse and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe. The SS 20, Arbatov believes are not in essence different from the weapons they replaced (the SS-4 and SS-5) because they do not have the capability of reaching the United States--SS-20 remains a theater weapon usably, only in Europe. The Pershings and Cruise missiles though are clearly superior to their prerectly From the Soviet viewpoint, this is clearcut...
...which, after days of hesitation and debate among his advisers, the President had anticlimactically reappointed Premier Pierre Mauroy, 54, to head a streamlined government composed of virtually the same faces. Considering the difficulty of his task, Mitterrand's rhetorical talents rose to the occasion. In an inspirational vein reminiscent of former President Charles de Gaulle, Mitterrand urged the French to be "mobilized without weakness and complacency in the service of France, even if it is difficult, and because it is difficult...
...PSYCHOLOGICAL ramifications of Vietnam are a long way from being exhausted as a mine for literary insight, and a new play at the Next Move shows that the vein is still rich. Medal of Honor Rag provides a personal insight of one man's reaction to his experiences in Vietnam, and through him, reveals the psychological trauma which afflicts many veterans of that war even today...