Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those traveling down Thursday night, the train arrived five hours late because the central tracking system was "disabled multiple times," according to Ciollo...
...those traveling down Thursday night, the train arrived five hours late because the central tracking system was "disabled multiple times," according to Ciollo...
Voucher supporters fault the study's methodology, attacking everything from the impartiality of the researchers to the conditions under which the fourth-graders were tested. Lydia Harris, a reading specialist at Hope Central Academy, says the examiners who came to the school "didn't have a clue," and administered the test during children's nap time. She also suspects the State Department of Education, which commissioned the study, may have wanted vouchers to come off badly because its bureaucratic inertia makes it resist systemic reforms like vouchers. Even the study's authors concede their results don't necessarily discredit vouchers...
...retired heart surgeon in Seattle who has recently lost his beloved wife of 50 years, Rachel, and has been told he has terminal cancer. Pragmatic to the core, he puts his dogs into his car, collects his father's gun and, on a rainy October morning, sets off toward central Washington to shoot himself. Almost instantly, though, he smashes his car and, surviving by a miracle, finds himself a scary-looking vagabond on the loose. All he has to sustain him are the kindness of strangers and the resources of his spirit and the earth...
...central figure in all this is Henry. He is a dynamo, constantly moving in and out of his "reality," constantly challenging his audience’s ideas of "onstage" and "offstage." His view of the world seems at first childlike--as the doctor notes--but it steadily gains momentum and substance, building up to an explosion in which Henry reveals the truth. He is not mad and has not been for several years; rather, he feigns insanity in order to "tear off the comic masks" from the faces of others and to "reveal all their trappings as mere disguises...