Word: developable
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...blamed the large size and disorganization of the school department administration on the Cambridge tradition of giving schools wide latitude to develop their own educational programs, rather than pursuing system-wide initiatives...
...wouldn't be a national ID card - not really. The Department of Transportation, acting on instructions from Congress, has begun work with states to develop electronically smarter drivers' licenses that can be checked for validity across the country, and that have more than just than that always-awful picture - like a fingerprint or retinal-scan imprint - to match the card to its holder...
...standard sitcom jokes makes it seem less funny than you might expect. Much of its humor is physical comedy, since watching someone in real time means devoting a lot of time to watching Ellie walk, get dressed and generally run around. The format also encourages the writers to develop more subtle characters. "It's an intimate way of getting to know a person. There's an opportunity to see the moments between the moments," Louis-Dreyfus says...
...lower expectations and buy time to let their show develop as it finds an audience, Louis-Dreyfus and Hall have made some unusual demands. They have asked to have their show be a midseason replacement. They have also offered to sell the network only 15 episodes a year instead of pushing for the full 22-show order most series crave. And they have requested, perhaps unsuccessfully (the final scheduling is still pending), that NBC put them on lower-key Tuesday night instead of in the middle of Thursday's "Must See TV" lineup, a spot so warm and cozy that...
...other Islamic countries to follow. Bush now envisions a bold--some would say idealistic--transformation in Islamic attitudes toward the U.S., the kind of big-vision realignment he once dismissed as mushy-headed nonsense. "Pakistan has the hope of becoming a Muslim state with which Western nations can develop good and strong relations," Bush says. His faith in the general he once could not name has become a mantra he repeats to other foreign leaders he is trying to buck up. "Musharraf was firm." Bush tells them. "He led, and then there were no protests...