Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same kinds of injustices, we recognize that we're playing for the same team. In fact, this experience is so gratifying that it's tempting to just stick to our liberal selves and to stop dealing with the other team altogether. When we're talking to each other, we aren't constantly forced to explain ourselves, to start from square one in every argument. We share certain basic tenets and assumptions that allow us to move straight to what feels like a much higher level of discourse...
...menorahs rule is an extension of the fire prevention, no-candles policy applied to all Harvard housing. Yet, if you turn on a television or open up a family magazine in December, the newscasts and articles aren't warning people about the dangers of menorahs. Instead they are warning people about the dangers of Christmas trees and lights--how they so often are the cause of disastrous fires. Even the e-mail to first-years stated that Christmas trees dry out very quickly and create a major fire hazard to all residents of a building. So, why does the College...
...shaping of economic indicators. After all, it seems counterintuitive that wage inflation wouldn't increase with the ever-expanding job market. "But this may show some things about the new economy," says Baumohl. "Increased productivity means that even though new jobs are being added, the prices of consumer goods aren't rising. And a growing number of employees are being at least partly rewarded in ways that don't show up in hourly wage inflation figures - extra benefits, bonuses and stock options." It may be a gilded age, but gold isn't all that glitters...
...enchilada of educational measurement - the percentage of kids who graduate from high school - remains stalled at 86 percent. Improving this is a much tougher proposition. Unlike early childhood education, for which there are widely accepted models for success, high school is an area that education leaders aren't quite sure how to address. In the '90s some states experimented with vouchers, while most raised their targets for student achievement on standardized tests. That hasn't been very successful; just last week, for example, Arizona announced that only 1 in 10 sophomores passed a new state math test, and states...
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