Word: yearlong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prior to its launching, CoverMaker was extensively tested in a yearlong pilot program that involved 80 teachers and 2,000 students in 50 schools. The response from both groups was overwhelmingly positive. "The students love it," reports Georgia Lee, an American-history teacher at Captain Shreve High School in Shreveport, La. "They come in before school, during lunch, after school. Some of them were students who didn't even know where the library was before CoverMaker...
...presidential statement included an admission that the yearlong program "clearly has not done what we intended for it to do" to end apartheid. Reagan also held out the possibility of additional actions. But they will have to be substantial if the President hopes to head off the sturdier sanctions that Congress is expected to pass in the next few weeks...
During its intermittent, yearlong investigation, there were times when the commission seemed to be on a kind of surrealist mystery tour of sexual perversity, peeping at the most recondite forms of sexual behavior known -- though mostly unknown -- to society. The report details testimony about practices involving human excretions, asphyxiation and anilingus, along with even more arcane fetishes, such as collecting toenail clippings and sniffing sweat. The panel heard from a Houston police officer whose vice squad had confiscated and was storing some 27,000 "rubber goods." Many of the so- called victims described the harm that had befallen them after...
Because of his strongly conservative beliefs and his pugnacious demeanor, Meese is perhaps the most controversial figure in the Administration. Matters did not begin well with a yearlong struggle for confirmation, during which he admitted to helping get Government jobs for friends who had granted him loans, some of them interest free. Today, polls show that he is the only Reagan aide whose negative ratings exceed his positive marks. Liberal fund raisers, who find it difficult to run campaigns criticizing the popular President, have discovered that political literature condemning Meese can inspire generous donations. Ira Glasser, executive director...
...National Commission on Space, after a yearlong study, sketched a detailed timetable for colonizing the moon and Mars during the next 50 years. The report was scorned as unrealistic by a White House aide, but Paine, the commission's forward-looking chairman, predicted that if his panel reassembled in 15 years it would "severely criticize" its own report as insufficiently visionary. "Somebody will be mining the moon by the year 2005," he declared. "The only real question is what language they'll be speaking...