Word: coring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Core program has seen the addition of a Quantitative Reasoning requirement and the end of the Advanced Placement exam exemption for Science A and B courses, while the Committee on Undergraduate Education has also raised the bar for the foreign language requirement...
...coursework and to see what exactly you have learned. And then you relize that the whole point of exams is not to make you sum up the entire course, or filter it down into the three major things worth knowing. (That's only the point of exams in Core classes.) The point is to make you study--to force you to admire, if only from afar, that vast expanse of time and thought...
...abortion (she's against it but says the debate is a "dead end") as being about inclusiveness. But in fact the real goal is to hone her broad, soft support (from people who know her husband and like the idea of a woman in the race) into a core group of people who might be inspired enough to actually vote for her (those who agree with her on assault weapons and abortion). "I'd rather have 25% who love her than 50% who like her," says a Dole aide...
Last fall, thousands paid the requisite $8 to see "Meet Joe Black" just to catch a glimpse of the Star Wars trailer--those hard-core fans who stomached the movie itself were rewarded with an encore performance of the trailer at the end. And when "Phantom Menace" action figures went on sale three weeks ago at FAO Schwartz, there were stampedes of Cabbage Patch Kid proportions reported from Boston to San Francisco...
...electorate, who'll vote for him as prime minister when they go to the polls to elect their own parties to parliament. "They'd have been a lot less likely to be motivated to vote a second time when it's only for Barak," says Beyer. "But Netanyahu's core constituencies, such as ultra-orthodox Jews, are highly motivated. And a runoff would have also given Bibi two more weeks to come up with some gimmick to turn the tide." Barak may have a clear shot, but with Israel's ethnic and political divisions as fierce as ever, nobody...