Word: cheering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fearing that the country and the University may be conveying the wrong message with the "thousands of people being sent in" to cheer Jiang's visit tomorrow, Rabgey says that she felt it is almost a responsibility to speak...
Proponents say these seminars carry the force of revelation. Attendees have been known to stand and cheer like converts at a tent meeting. But critics, careful always to applaud Efficacy's central objective of raising expectations, wonder whether the $1 million Baltimore spent on the program--equivalent to the starting salaries of 40 teachers--was money wisely used. "It's an example of what is wrong with urban education," says the Abell Foundation's Embry. "It was put in without any evidence of its working--without any evidence even expected...
...There are no more promises of a greater tomorrow. Besides, we're too hungry to cheer," Mwangi said during the performance...
What the Marlins have done is great for South Florida and great for the game of baseball. An entire market of die-hard fans, previously untapped, has a team for which to cheer and a reason to love baseball. Everyone involved with the sport, in fact, can find a story to appreciate on this team...
Regardless of the outcome, the team has already excited an entire state that has never had reason to cheer quite like it is doing now. But if the Marlins can somehow emerge victorious in the Fall Classic, it will mark the crowning achievement in what has become a South Florida sports renaissance over the past three years...