Word: summering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...then puts it together in a way that readers can understand and enjoy." Moreover, Church's memory could shame an elephant. "He reads things once, including a correspondent's files, and remembers them damn near forever," a fellow writer, Ed Magnuson, complains cheerfully. While at a baseball game last summer, Magnuson asked Church if he could recall his first visit to a ball park. "Of course he could," says Magnuson. "It was back in high school, and he knew who played and who won. But he was really disgruntled that he couldn't recall the score...
Michael Kantor, 44, lost his job last summer as vice president of the United Cotton Goods Co. of Griffin, Ga., a textile company that Kantor says was "beaten to death by imports." He has flooded the mails with resumes, in the hope that "if you shoot enough bullets into the woods, a deer will run into one." He answered an ad in the Wall Street Journal for a corporate financial officer last September and waited months for a response. "As people are scared, they are taking longer to make decisions," he said. That is true, a company official agreed...
...Saddam $1.5 billion a month since he invaded Kuwait in August, leaving his nation without the foreign exchange it must have to offer as payment for smuggled goods. For now, Iraqi factories can dip into preinvasion stockpiles or obtain parts plundered from Kuwaiti factories. But by next spring or summer, Webster predicted, "only energy-related and some military industries will still be functioning...
Some blacks and a lot of whites are concerned that all-black schools amount to debilitating racial isolation. Stan Conner, whose grandchild attends Dumas, concedes, "You don't know whites on a personal basis. You grow up more isolated." Sociologist Coleman believes integrated summer camps could help offset the classroom separation. Students themselves are unconcerned. "We're not prejudiced," shrugs eighth-grader Keith Harris, 12. "White kids are welcome here...
...that what the two professions are really concerned about is profits. In fact, psychiatrists have reason to worry. From 1982 to 1987, according to one poll, the proportion of counseling visits handled by psychiatrists fell from 36% to 22%, while those by psychologists rose from 29% to 34%. This summer Washington loosened psychiatrists' grip on treatment of the elderly by permitting psychologists to receive reimbursements from Medicare. In addition, the California supreme court undercut psychiatrists' authority by allowing psychologists to admit patients to the state's hospitals...