Word: cheat
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...baseball club and the Ivy have also each realized that community members sometimes cheat and deceive in the face of such pressure. Neither steroids-tainted Yankees slugger Jason Giambi nor infamous “author” Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 would likely be where they are today without an illicit...
...lengths to which some students have gone to cheat their way into college reflect a wider crisis in Vietnam's higher education system, which hasn't grown fast enough to meet demand from students eager to get ahead in Asia's second-fastest-growing economy...
This is a typical Baghdad love story. Sameera Ubaid had a temp job last summer, supervising examinations at an engineering college. In the exam hall one day, she met Salaam Ali, a lecturer at the college. They made small talk while ensuring that the students didn't cheat. When the exams ended, they went their separate ways, promising to call but, Ali says, "never expecting to see each other again...
...Delhi to spur the transition to a more efficient supply chain. While middlemen may be feeling the pinch, farmers selling to Reliance say they're happy to be paid in cash as soon as they hand over their goods. "We were dealing with thieves who always used to cheat us," says Karnataka grape farmer Veeranna Gowda. "But we Indians believe in rebirth and because of good things I've done in the past, I am now benefiting." Reliance hopes all Indians will soon share that sentiment...
There are, however, two surefire ways to hit the 2014 target. One is for schools to cheat on the tests--a frighteningly commonplace solution, according to David Berliner, a respected education scholar at Arizona State University and a co-author of a new book, Collateral Damage, that documents the cheating trend. The other solution is to make the state tests easier, a phenomenon known among educators as "the race to the bottom." Philadelphia's Vallas likes to joke that there are two paths to success for his city's schools: improve instruction for students "or give them the Illinois tests...