Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Part of the difficulty in maintaining a large enough teaching staff is the high turnover rate of expository writing teachers, Marius said. The average stay of an instructor in the program is four years, although some leave after one year, and some stay as long as eight, he said...
...quite surprised when my lab instructor told us we had to buy liquid nitrogen; in the U.S.S.R. we just take it," Putilina said...
Aerobics, I learned, does not adhere to basic human rights standards established by the Geneva Convention. For 60 minutes your body is at the mercy of an instructor who 1) is not human, and 2) probably tortures stray kittens in her spare time...
...Bend over! Touch your toes! Good! Again! Good! Again! Yes! Fantastic!" The ever-smiling aerobics instructor, who I shall call Satan, brims with enthusiasm to the point of hysteria. If she spoke this way on the street, she would be arrested for inciting a riot...
Physical fitness and finesse crop up on the daily agenda. In one of the last places that women regularly gather without men around, there is much discussion of quads, glutes and pecs. Many of these women know their cholesterol count, optimum training heart rate and body-fat percentage. Says instructor and center co-owner Karen Shaffer, 43, who bears a striking resemblance to Carol Burnett: "We talk about boobs a lot." Jazzercise is also an hour of dancing, something that women seem to like a good deal more than men do. Says writer and editor Phyllis Kluger...