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Last year Tift schools shot up 14 points in statewide reading tests. At G.O. Bailey Elementary, Gladis Aguire, 8, went from not speaking a word of English and flunking first grade to being the top reader in her class a year later. Adults began wearing badges that say HEY, WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING? Tammie Smith, principal at Northside Elementary, has parents coming in an hour before the start of school, "taking tests right alongside their kids...
...like all have security guards around the clock. Even our little local grocery store has a sheriff moonlighting as a guard on weekend nights. Maybe the major airlines that transport millions of people each year should consider hiring people to protect those of us who use their services. JENNIFER BAILEY O'NEIL Cincinnati, Ohio
...ironic that the people who abhor Big Government want to pillory Susan Bailey, the new head of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration [BUSINESS, Sept. 18], for not protecting them from the Firestone-Ford fiasco? Everyone wants to be independent--until the crud hits the fan. Then they want to know why the government didn't act to protect them. PASQUALE JOHN PIACENTE Newington, Conn...
After the former fastest man in the world, Donovan Bailey, battled back from a ruptured achilles and a pulled hamstring just to compete in Sydney, isn't it just a little tragic that a case of the flu forced the 32 year-old to pull up short 50m into his quarterfinal race...
Last week testy legislators pilloried Susan Bailey, head of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, for the agency's slow-leak performance in the Firestone case. There's just one problem: Congress helped puncture the agency's effectiveness. In the 1980s, the Reagan Administration poleaxed nhtsa and other regulatory agencies as costly encumbrances to business. NHTSA's current budget is $392 million, a third less in real terms than...