Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...female schools that remain, survival will require tough choices. To help brighten its bottom line, Bryn Mawr decided three years ago to phase out several graduate departments, pare faculty and staff, and gradually increase its undergraduate enrollment from 1,000 to 1,200. Russell Sage, in Troy, N.Y., has repositioned itself, aggressively courting "resumers" -- women over 25 -- who make up 22% of its undergraduates...
Such passionate debate makes it unlikely that primary-grade classrooms for black boys will become the norm anytime soon. Still, unless something else is done to make single-parent black homes more supportive of these children, or to help reduce their soaring dropout and suspension rates, the idea could attract more disciples -- ironically hastening the day when "separate but equal" may actually help black youths rather than hurt them...
...came to ask my advice about planning coverage for the 1992 elections. Toward the end, she raised a special problem: how to get young adults interested in political coverage. I offered the opinion that 19-year-olds who sit in front of a television watching politics could use professional help. At that age they should be playing ball and looking for a date. They'll have time enough at my age to worry about the mortgage and choosing a candidate on the basis of his views on monetary policy...
There is more than a slight whiff of jailhouse self-pity: Joe loves Kitty, goes to the lockup, survives the schemes of bad villains with the help of good villains, and gets out to find true-blue Kitty and the child he has never seen waiting for him. The best of the book is Morgan's wildly reinvented con lingo. His ear fails him occasionally, when he uses lace-curtain language -- "caparisoned," "implacable mien" -- that some editor should have yanked from the manuscript with tongs. But at other times he's cooking: "Saturday night movies in the Gym were...
While the economy today is part of the problem in the U.S.S.R., it could be part of the solution tomorrow. Economic reform and the emergence of market mechanisms may yet help stimulate the economic and political integration of the various parts of the country...