Word: visits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal, the Chelsea system will provide extensive social services for children as well as a rigorous education. While B.U. teaching interns would receive course credits for their stints at the blackboard, degree candidates in nursing and dentistry would oversee medical and nutrition programs for preschoolers. B.U. social workers would visit the homes of troubled students to help address problems affecting their school performance. Other plans include a top-to-bottom overhaul of the curriculum and increases in teacher salaries, now among the lowest in the state...
...from microwave ovens to electric can openers, and expropriated all waterfront property. They have also encouraged such an independent spirit in women that they have become sexual predators and even control the ruling party. Into this world of spartan but sensual living comes a reporter, the first American to visit Ecotopia since independence, to explore Ecotopian technology, the almost religious reverence for nature, and social habits, both appealing and appalling...
Students said their visit to New York City hadcleared up misconceptions they had held beforetheir visit. "I was expecting guns going off onevery corner every hour," one student said
...head on the pillow vividly predicts the style of Gericault nearly 200 years later) but also his little son, whose blue cloak matches the general's; the women suffer, but the boy learns, remembers and will act. The more Germanicus unfolds, the more one realizes why Bernini, on his visit to Louis XIV in Paris, declared Poussin to be the only French artist who really mattered: un grande favoleggiatore, "a great storyteller...
With Paisley gone, the Pope, unfazed, continued his speech. As elsewhere during his four-day visit to France, John Paul strongly endorsed the European Community's moves toward greater economic and administrative integration by 1992. And he urged still more European unity -- reaching out to include East bloc nations -- on the basis of a shared Christian identity...