Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hearing will decide whether the students, who all write for the conservative journal The Dartmouth Review, violated the school's code of conduct by confronting music professor William S. Cole last Thursday at the end of his class...
...function of stature and familiarity. Bush and Dole are universally known in their party and enjoy reputations as national figures. The Democratic candidates, perched lower on the political ladder, must still prove they are eligible to climb. Until they do, the rank and file will continue to write its preferences in sand rather than concrete...
Reduce the write-off on business meals. The restaurant business did not collapse when the full deduction was cut to 80% in 1986. Now the deduction could be sliced to 50%. $3.6 billion
...Spacious Skies programs vary greatly from school to school. At suburban Hillside, for example, students listen to "sky music" ranging from Franz Josef Haydn's Sunrise Quartet to Tom Paxton's Even a Gray Day. In Pittsburgh's Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, Ruth Martin's fifth-graders write cloud-inspired haiku and use star charts to find constellations. The program seems to work as well in cities as in suburbia: Martin describes an eight- year-old "barely able to contain his excitement" at having spotted Jupiter above the urban skyline with his naked...
...time when there is a great deal of lamentation about the decline in writing skills among American children, the program seems to be a beacon of hope. "Children who respond to this write in a profound way," observes Miriam Kronish, the principal at Hillside. Best of all, "it's fun," says a Hillside fifth-grader and budding poet, Elizabeth Stone. "You can write what you want," she points out, and unlike too many other assignments, "you understand what you are writing about...