That's people who are out of their homes in the middle of the night - children who maybe won't get to school this morning, old people who will be facing the challenge of not being able to have a night in their own bed.
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Yet Peter, as this courtly old-school gentleman didn't mind being called, was inherently personal in his communications.
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It means, she says, the NHS is stretched and her six-year-old daughter isn't at the best local school.
But the 24-year-old Wharton business school graduate isn't griping.
With a caucus that includes unreconstructed liberals like Paul Wellstone of Minnesota as well as unpredictable bulls like Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, old-school cajoling just isn't terribly effective.
He didn't start in a music school or even a regular old jazz band.
Hardy's 14-year old daughter, Asia Billingsly, didn't mind missing school to stand out in the snow and cold and take in the momentous occasion.
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He's dressed in a blue-striped tie framed by a crisp white T-shirt -- a typical 15-year-old Kenyan high school student.
It also doesn't hurt that in Kelley, Shankman has discovered a prodigious hoofer of the old school.
The singer was "one of the old school, " he added, "and there aren't many left".
The old-school work ethic of the 90-plus generation isn't limited to American shores.
"It got so crazy at times, I'd forget which schools I'd finished my applications for, and which ones I didn't, " said Genevieve Carrillo, a 17-year-old senior at Highline High School in Burien, Wash.
We drove past my old high school: there were bars on the windows where there hadn't been before I went to prison, armed uniformed guards out front where be-fore there'd been old-lady hall monitors with whistles, and I imagined that the bars and the guards were there to protect the students from me and not some teenage crazy in a trench coat stuffed with home-made ordnance.
Her mother doesn't drive, leaving Ms. Tello with the responsibility of taking her 10-year-old brother to school, doctors' visits and swimming lessons.
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With the increased cost of living, what's left just isn't enough to send Ahri to school and to feed him and his two brothers, 3-year-old Mohammed and 7-month-old Eka Jaya.
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"Gates demonstrated that the old-school model of an Ivy-league degree, or a pedigreed family, isn't a requirement for career success, " says Katy Piotrowski, author of The Career Coward's Guide to Changing Careers.
When doctors couldn't explain why she suddenly had a stroke two years ago, the 36-year-old junior-high-school teacher went for a second opinion.
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