Word: specialize
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Quayle got special treatment at DePauw in one provable case: he graduated with a major in politics without taking the required course in political theory. When he flunked the theoretical parts of the final exam, he was given a special exam without those parts. He was one of two students for whom this was done that year, and the common denominator in their case is not family (the other man was not a Pulliam) but a quarrel between the department head and the teacher of political theory over the size and kind of assignments given in the course...
...buying power and is almost equal to his Stasi pay. (A few former agents have even found employment as policemen in West Germany.) But Dieter has lost a packet of coveted perks, among them paid vacations at choice resorts along the Baltic coast. Because the Stasis were in a special category set apart from the typical East German civil servant, he received no unemployment...
...Impose special taxes on carbon-dioxide emissions...
Rockers to the rescue. A CBS special called Save the Planet runs on April 20. With hosts Katey Sagal (Married . . . With Children) and comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, the show has musical numbers by the Fine Young Cannibals and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Paula Abdul, Alice Cooper and Billy Idol will "provide their own thoughts on the state of the world's environment...
Mother Earth's delicate condition. On April 22 ABC broadcasts the Earth Day Special, featuring Bette Midler as an abused Mother Earth who collapses in a town square, suffering from global warming, deforestation, etc., and gets tended by Drs. Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris) and Steven Kiley (James Brolin). Visitors to the invalid include Kevin Costner, Quincy Jones and Meryl Streep...