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...care centers. Violence is a regular visitor to the schoolyard. Last year in New York City there were more than 300 instances in which students punched, stabbed or otherwise assaulted public school teachers. Against such corrosive influences, it is increasingly teachers -- not parents -- who are called upon to function as society's first line of defense. Says Carolee Bogue, dean of students at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles: "Most kids today look to the teachers for the support that they don't get at home...
That label-pinning is a function of the instant analysis afforded by TV coverage, Reese notes. "It's part of the spin, the angle," he says...
...Post said the rally "didn't interfere with our evening," partly because most of the protesters had left by the time the function started. Club members paid little attention to the demonstrators, ignoring their taunts and chants. And one passerby who said he is being punched by another club called the event "absurd...
...case, Thompson says the controversy is irrelevant because "there's no function for the state representative in terms of rent control." He says Graham wants to "cloud the issue of the state representative's function" by emphasizing her stands on rent control, he says, adding that rent control is not as big an issue as it once...
...sent from China. The English translation of the instructions supplied by the manufacturer was often puzzling. A sample sentence: "Starting direction signal is sent out in electric part, enabling main servomotor open, increasing speed of generating unit and reach to steady speed under no load under the function of auto adjusting speed." Deciphering such instructions and reconciling the various pieces of equipment caused a delay of one year, during which interest payments and other costs continued...