Word: crutches
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...HAVEN, Conn.—Junior quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick looked like he could barely walk. Thankfully for him, freshman tailback Clifton Dawson served as the perfect crutch in Harvard’s 37-19 victory...
...have deep knowledge of subject matter and of how to engage youngsters, most are in despair over the limits put on them by the mindless work demanded by these high-stakes tests. Many of those who are less well prepared for teaching use this diminished curriculum as a crutch. They do not seek further help, nor does anyone in a supervisory capacity offer help of any significant kind. Again, high-stakes tests prevent the development of high standards...
...resentment but send the message to blacks that they can't meet the same standards as everyone else. Swain's detractors say such steps amount to no more than a cowardly capitulation to racism, but she won't back down because she does not believe that blacks need the crutch provided by race-conscious policies. For Swain, a deeply devout evangelical Christian, such beliefs are not academic. Now 49, she went from being a high school drop-out and single mother in rural Virginia to a Ph.d and a chair at a leading university. "Somehow, we've got to embrace...
...REPUBLICAN PARTY BECOME TOO STRIDENT UNDER YOUR SPEAKERSHIP? Go back to that period and look at the 125,000 negative ads run by the other side. The cover your magazine did of me after I was elected Speaker showed me as Scrooge holding Tiny Tim's broken crutch. That was over the top. On the other hand, if Bush had been President, I would have been a pussycat...
...cushy elective,” she found that she was doing her religion homework before anything else. She eventually added religion as a joint concentration with government, her chosen field, but says the readings in the religion tutorial, which focused on “religion as a psychological crutch,” as she puts it, only reinforced her agnostic tendencies...