Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strike was widespread and militant from the start. In Boston, 14 striking New England Telephone workers were arrested for blocking the company's repair trucks. Customers in New York, New Jersey and California lost service when phone lines were sabotaged. In Van Nuys, Calif., two striking Pacific Bell employees suffered injuries when they were bumped by cars crossing the picket lines. The drivers "got angry because we called them scabs," claimed Marisa Rotondi, a shop steward for the local union. "Things are starting to get pretty bad out here...
...thinking about higher education at an early age and to nurture that goal through high school. "Once kids have the fever for college, you can do a lot of good," says Nathan Potts, principal of West Side High School in Newark, which was "adopted" by Ramapo College of New Jersey...
Despite such obstacles, many education advocates think the future of reform is bright. They point to innovations such as New Jersey's alternative teacher certification, which has opened up the field to mid-career professionals, and Minnesota's choice system, which this fall will phase in a program that allows students to attend any school in the state...
...Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, President Derek C. Bok, the president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the president of the Education Commission of the States and Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos were all slated to speak at the event...
...what have I learned from this whole ordeal? That my male ego should be banished to the depths of my subconscious? Or that God never meant there to be beautiful days in New Jersey...