Word: boundingly
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...much for caution. In test-happy America, the SAT has since become a kind of academic icon and a national rite of passage for college-bound high school students. Every year more than 1.3 million of them take the 2-hr., 30-min. multiple-choice exam, which is intended to measure students' reasoning skills, math and verbal, as well as their readiness for college. High SAT scores -- perfection is 800 on each half of the exam -- have acquired the cachet of quality. Suburbs lure prospective home buyers by touting the SAT records of their high schools' graduates. Colleges boast...
Even so, the industry is bound to consolidate further. High costs mean that ambitious carriers like USAir, Midway and America West are reining in their plans. A year ago, five airlines -- American, United, Delta, Northwest and Continental -- dominated the top tier of the U.S. industry, accounting for 66.3% of all passenger miles. Because of problems at Continental, that tier may soon shrink to four powerhouses...
...didn't claim that women were morally superior. But they had been at the receiving end of prejudice long enough, we thought, to empathize with the underdog of either sex. Then too, the values implicit in motherhood were bound to clash with the "male values" of competitiveness and devil-may-care profiteering. We imagined women storming male strongholds and, once inside, becoming change agents, role models, whistle-blowers. The hand that rocks the cradle was sure to rock the boat...
Unfortunately, as long as the public's get-tough-on-crime mood lasts -- and it has endured for the better part of a decade -- the number of crack kids and women prisoners seems bound to keep soaring. Which means that their particular needs can no longer be ignored. Some steps have been taken. Rikers Island, for example, maintains a nursery for babies born to prisoners, allowing the babies to stay with their mothers for up to a year. Hardwick and other institutions have parenting and outreach programs for inmates' children. Federal legislation enacted last year makes pregnant prisoners and their...
...things are bound to change. Japan faces a huge labor shortage, and companies cannot ignore the female labor pool. Eager to ease the tight market, the Labor Ministry recently developed a training program specifically for women who want to return to work. At the same time, the government is urging men to shorten their work hours and cultivate outside interests in order to improve the quality of their lives...