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...Despite yearly salaries often exceeding $100,000, 27 superintendents in urban school systems left their jobs in the last year-and-a-half, Husk says. Of this group, more than half were "bought out, forced out or forcefully retired" before their contracts had been fulfilled...

Author: By Seth S. Harkness, | Title: Ed School Program Seeks To Train New Generation Of Urban School Leaders | 1/7/1991 | See Source »

...last year-and-a-half the situation has changed for the worse and that has been created by a substantial influx of unfortunates in various catagories--alcoholics, those afflicted with mental problems and the homeless," says Carl F. Barron, president of Putnam Furniture Leasing Company and president of the area's business association...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Fighting to Keep A Square Alive | 9/14/1990 | See Source »

...Padan Aram was originally founded by people who left the Advocate during a frustrating year-and-a-half hiatus," Heap explained. "For the past 14 years we have been a venue for writers who felt intimidated by the Advocate, since it used to publish only three or four poems an issue...

Author: By Liza M. Velazquez, | Title: Literary Magazines Explore New Directions | 3/1/1990 | See Source »

What do you say to an offer to ghostwrite Nancy Reagan's autobiography? "Just say yes," advised William Novak's wife Linda when Random House approached him a year-and-a-half ago. Today My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan has made headlines, sold some 400,000 copies and soared to the top of the best-seller lists. Yet if Novak went with a winner, so did Reagan. Novak, 41, came to the collaboration with credentials of his own. He is the golden mouthpiece of the nation's celebrities, a literary John Alden who can consistently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Celebs' Golden Mouthpiece: William Novak | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...Harvard men's hockey team lost at home last night for the first time in a year-and-a-half, falling to Army, 4-3. before 3053 stunned centers at Bright Center...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Home Invasion: Cadets Shock | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

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