Word: locales
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...three-year doctoral exercise that includes a six-month internship in an urban superintendent's office. The effort is mercifully short on theory and long on experience and real life. Students -- most with more than a decade in public education -- role-play different sides in past labor negotiations, face local television reporters and ponder administrative dilemmas involving everything from what to do about asbestos in schools to AIDS education. The students are forced to hone political skills that have little to do with education but are necessities for the jobs they seek...
This year the symptoms are most apparent in those parts of the country -- New England, the mid-Atlantic states, parts of the Midwest -- that have suffered the greatest economic decline. In the suburbs of Detroit, where sagging auto sales have fanned recession fears, psychiatric referrals from a local counseling service are up nearly 20% over the past six months. Business is also booming at the Massachusetts Psychological Association referral service, where out-of-work lawyers and former bond salesmen seek help in coping with stress, anxiety disorders and panic attacks. Drugstores in the region report brisk sales in Tagamet...
...front page of Pravda, the Communist Party daily, posed the question haunting all Soviet consumers as they prepare for the coming winter: ARE WE THREATENED WITH HUNGER? President Mikhail Gorbachev has roundly dismissed what he calls "conjectures of a coming famine." In industrial centers like Leningrad, however, local authorities plan to introduce wide-scale rationing to avert the worst consumer shortages since the end of World...
...planned 2,920 tons. The Belorussians have sent 120 tons instead of 970. Nothing has come from Kazakhstan, Latvia or Lithuania. During the past nine months, the agricultural regions around Sverdlovsk have held back one-third of their scheduled deliveries of produce and sold the products on local markets...
...primitive than the last and the transportation, when there is any, is mostly by truck and camel. There are pestilential insects everywhere; the breakfast tray comes with a DDT spray can. When Kit isn't complaining about the heat or the stupidity, she is sleeping with the twit. A local prostitute tries to steal Port's wallet, and a loathsome Englishman filches his passport. What other atrocities can he imagine? Perhaps that he will sweat out a typhoid fever in a miserable cell in a Foreign Legion garrison? Or that his wife will lose her wits as the love slave...