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...Sept. 24, Continental Air Lines Chairman Frank Lorenzo, 43, attempted to reduce wage costs by temporarily going out of business. Lorenzo's plan was to close down the ninth largest U.S. airline and reopen a smaller carrier with lower labor costs, along the lines of the newcomers. Lorenzo claimed that Continental had been unable to win enough voluntary wage concessions from its unions...
School districts have devised a variety of imaginative and promising strategies to challenge the unchallenged and to brighten the best. New York State is considering a proposal that would require foreign language proficiency by ninth grade. Tennessee has approved a program that will award "honors diplomas" to students who voluntarily complete an accelerated course of study with strong emphasis on English, math, science, arts and foreign languages. Louisiana has opened a residential state school in Natchitoches for students gifted in math, science and the arts, modeled on North Carolina's boarding school. In Iowa, where only 1,500 students...
Southie is also the only district school that requires all ninth-graders to study a foreign language. In addition to a mandatory English course, ninth-and tenth-graders must take a reading and writing workshop that continues hi the eleventh and twelfth grades if the student does not do well. Daily attendance rates have risen 14% in the past year. Says Winegar: "You don't change a school with programs. You change a school with philosophy. We want to help young people battle their way into the mainstream...
...fact, Vignali hasn't missed a practice since ninth grade. His memories of football go back as far as first grade. When he was six he played catch with his father Larry, who was an All-American at Pitt, drafted out of college in the fifth round by the Pittsburgh Steelers...
...Orioles staged a one run rally in the ninth, with Cal Ripken Jr. singling home the O's lone score...