Word: differents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While initiation rites differ from club to club, several require punches to perform stunts ranging from carrying a keg of beer to class to running in circles while screaming...
Dodd and Daschle differ on some hot issues as well. Dodd supports a moment of silence in schools; Daschle doesn't. Dodd opposes term limits; Daschle favors them. Dodd views a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution as "the worst kind of gimmick, a prescription for chaos designed to get us off the hook by having us avoid our duty, which is to cut the deficit on our own initiative." Daschle supports the amendment, apparently with an eye to public relations rather than policy. "We Democrats have a perception problem," he argues. "The public thinks we're only about taxing...
...stations, whose broadcasts are monitored by the government for fairness and suitability? Or are they like bookstores, which the courts have ruled can't be expected to review the content of every title on their shelves? And what happens when that content hops over borders and lands in a different city -- or country -- whose laws and community standards may differ...
...insightful commentary, Vibiana Andrade, national director of the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, labeled Wilson's proposal a form of fascism. She went on to say, "A card like he proposes would be very controlling--and very scary." Andrade, however, remained silent on how such a card would differ from a driver's license or voter registration card...
...approach that so far seems to be going over well with Northlane's young scholars. Sidney Tessin, 10, excitedly tells how her class dissected walnuts and discussed the ways vascular and nonvascular plants differ. In her old public school "we talked about plants," she says, "but never about why there are vascular and nonvascular plants." Nick Reisinger, a freckled 12- year-old, chimes in: "Here we get to talk about things instead of just listening to some boring teacher. I don't feel like 'Duh, what am I doing here?' anymore...