Word: busting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these are efforts to bust up the system," says Linda Darling- Hammond, co-director of the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching at Columbia University's Teachers College. "Right now we are trying to do a once-in-a-century reform of education. This is a transforming era. These efforts reflect the frustration people have with a perceived public-school bureaucracy that is very, very entrenched in a way of doing things that cannot meet our needs in the future...
...letter notes how often each incumbent voted to bust a filibuster in the last two years. The perfect scorers were all Democrats. The bottom three, all in the GOP minority, were Wyoming Sens. Alan Simpson and Malcolm Wallop and North Carolina's Jesse Helms...
...forget the parties. That is, don't forget that there won't be any. Those lovable police officers will come in and cheerfully bust anything, even if you're just sitting around sipping sherry with Grandma Martha...
...careful--if you protest too much, they may bust Granny, that is, if she hasn't been impaled by a flying oar, first...
Even so, the Crimson held the lead--for a short time. But for Providence, the game was like an expanding water balloon, only needing a tiny break to bust it open...