Word: centralizes
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Josefina Aguilera confronted public education's sad secret on her first day. "I came into the classroom," recalls the newly hired kindergarten teacher at 68th Street Elementary School in South Central Los Angeles, "and all I saw were crayons, some books and construction paper." Aguilera made a list of what was not there: puzzles, art supplies, puppets, records, posters and a bulletin board. Knowing the school could not pay for these items, she went shopping. "I spent about $300," she estimates. "My husband didn't know...
...natural constituency to support him--neither in the military nor in the provincial party system nor in the central bureaucracy. Explains David Shambaugh, a China expert at George Washington University and the Brookings Institution: "Zhu has stepped on a lot of toes to get to the top, and he's alienated a lot of people. He has numerous vulnerabilities...
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central W L T Pts GF GA Home Away Div Detroit 4 1 0 8 15 7 3 -0-0 1-1-0 2-0-0 Chicago 3 2 0 6 12 13 2-1-0 1-1-0 0-0-0 St. Louis 2 2 1 5 13 13 0- 1-0 2-1-1 0-0-1 Nashville 1 3 1 3 8 131-1-0 0-2-1 0-1-01 Northwest W L T Pts GF GA Home Away Div Vancouver...
...this clear, candid voice, Lindbergh tackles the daunting challenge of her family's legacy with a delightful mix of honesty, humor and wisdom. And although airplanes do not play a central role in the story she has to tell, this is a story that revolves around transportation none the less. Lindberg intersperses lively descriptions of her father's 6'2" frame folding itself into a Volkswagon Beetle for a quick road-side nap with tales of sleek Pullman trains and Ford Ranch Wagons. Lindbergh writes that her father "may have chosen it [the Ford] more in an attempt to camouflage...
Under a Wing is a story structured and directed by transportation, yet, in a distinctly personal sense, it is a book about navigation. The chapters of this book do not flow in any conventional order; they do not happen chronologically, nor do they evolve around a central theme, subsequently germinating into a complex literary metaphor. Instead, the story just happens, which may cause many readers to feel disoriented and lost as the first few chapters progress, fluently transgressing borders of time and place. When Lindbergh is describing a memorable flyinglesson of her youth, she deftly weaves in hermother's experiences...