Word: aligning
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...suited both men for different reasons. Wolfowitz often ventured way ahead of the rest of the Administration on foreign policy matters over the past two years, and Rumsfeld frequently let him go. That allowed Wolfowitz to push the whole Bush team to the right, which also let Rumsfeld align himself with that crowd when it served his purpose to do so. "Rumsfeld's a big-enough maestro to understand that Wolfowitz was the leading edge and that someone had to do it," a Pentagon associate says. "Are there times when it made him uncomfortable? Absolutely. Are there times when...
...Meacham, the No. 2 editor at Newsweek, has written a handsomely Plutarchan study that weaves together the lives, characters and fates of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in the years of their wartime partnership. Most of the anecdotes have been told a thousand times, but Meacham manages to align the two giants in a way that makes the stories seem fresh, the two men, seen so close together, casting interesting lights upon each other...
...vote came after a landmark ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) last Tuesday that affirmed the right of same sex couples to be afforded the benefits married heterosexual couples are awarded. The court stayed the decision for 180 days to give the legislature time to align its laws with the ruling...
...goals we have worked out with the superintendent includes five things to do at the high school: to make sure the curriculum is rigorous and consistent across the five small schools, to align the School Improvement Plan to new benchmarks for improvement; to achieve full accreditation as soon as possible, to administer a climate survey to teachers and students and to plan for implementing a better schedule in 2005. He has also promised to improve the evaluation of teachers throughout the district...
However, when the board's Reading Development Committee met in May, its chair, retired English teacher Joan Vinson of Dallas, argued against excluding those books. "These books are included in some of the best literature out there," Vinson said. "Also, if we're trying to align the SAT more with school curricula, that's something we can't do if we exclude these books." Other committee members heartily agreed that passages from William Faulkner and James Joyce--authors typically assigned only in the best schools--should also be considered for inclusion. Students who have already read these authors will have...