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...just the size of the debt that causes anxiety; it's whom we owe it to. Foreign governments, to which we are already beholden for the bulk of our energy, own a quarter of our debt. Now the U.S. government can't function without their aid? It's scary...
...March 15, President Obama unveiled his plan for reforming the nation's education system. The bulk of the plan, which looks to overhaul George W. Bush's frequently criticized No Child Left Behind law, advances the bold ideas with which this Administration has already become closely associated. The President wants to link billions of federal dollars to initiatives like ending the achievement gap between white and nonwhite students, evaluating teachers and awarding performance bonuses to principals and teachers who've earned them. On the basis of what we know has worked in New York City with our 1.1 million schoolkids...
Spending the bulk of her time in Japan, Faust met with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to discuss the declining number of Japanese students studying at American universities—something Hatoyama, who studied at Stanford, said he wished to address, according to Harvard history professor Andrew D. Gordon ’74, who participated in the meeting...
Although the bulk of the film’s character development occurs in these flashbacks, this love story, along with a second that emerges in the narrative foreground between the other strangers, is fairly well done. Both of these relationships range from extremely endearing at moments to nearly despicable at others, but this often makes them seem more realistic. Neither avoids predictability though, often as a result of the characters’ stereotypical natures; the beautiful young woman first thinks she’s too good for the strange Californian but later reconsiders upon seeing his more tender side...
...Washington Isn't the Answer In Washington, the bulk of the response to job loss has been to drum up short-term demand. Last year's stimulus package kept the economy from spiraling further downward. Current proposals to extend unemployment benefits and send $100 billion to struggling local governments would have a similar effect - allowing consumers and cities to keep on spending...