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...other information" which participating schools would have to report would include the average student-to-teacher ratio, the graduation rate and the basic curriculum offered. The state would then provide the schoolchildren's parents with a compendium of data on every school statewide which participates in the voucher program. Schools refusing to disclose this information would forfeit voucher eligibility...
...asked to pay far less. Business has been so good at all levels that the consultants have formed their own professional body, the National Association of Sentencing Advocates, with 100 member firms so far. Practitioners, often criminologists or social workers, have found themselves increasingly asked to decipher the compendium of federal sentencing guidelines, which has grown from paperback size to the dimensions of a metropolitan phone book over the past five years...
...candidate's philosophy and policy that when he spoke it was as if Clinton were there. "He made everything happen," says media consultant Mandy Grunwald. To mainline the candidate's unfiltered personality to the voters, Stephanopoulos orchestrated appearances on talk shows and MTV. He pulled together Clinton's compendium of economic solutions, Putting People First, a task that required him to ride herd on a disparate group of economic advisers, all of whom thought they possessed the cure for the deficit and the qualities to be Treasury Secretary...
...sake he hits on Mikhail Gorbachev.) He has an audiocassette of the book -- the ideal way to get through the tome, since Rush not only abridges the text but provides comedy sound effects (dolphin noises, Meryl Streep impressions and a frog slurp). He has the Limbaugh Letter, a monthly compendium "dedicated to preserving my wisdom for the ages" and "printed on nonrecycled paper." He has T shirts, mugs, bumper stickers. In salesmanship as in showmanship, he's a winner...
Both Hartmann and Audeh said they are currently considering a proposal to form "an advertising compendium" with other campus publications in order boost circulation and remain competitive...