Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conference was about to start, about a dozen of our allies were stranded outside without tickets, although seats were clearly available. I mentioned this to Peter and he helped me get them in. "The more the merrier," he said. But I was puzzled--why had this man helped me? We were supposed to be enemies...
Williams said she got so caught up in the Halloween fever here that she began working for one of the dozen or so haunted houses in town...
...suburban peers don't. With many of its schools in high-crime areas, the Baltimore system spends more than $5 million a year to field its own sworn--and armed--police force of 112 personnel, whose overtime pay alone would be enough to provide the starting salaries of two dozen full-time teachers. But the city must also pay the routine expenses faced by every school system, the largest of which is always salaries. Last year Baltimore spent $260.4 million to pay teachers and other staff members associated with regular instruction. It paid its special-education staff an additional...
...betting on Edison, Vaughn thrust Wichita into the front ranks of a bold and still controversial experiment in privatizing public education. America's first four Edison schools opened in the fall of 1995 in Wichita; Boston; Mount Clemens, Mich.; and Sherman, Texas. Three years and nearly two dozen new schools later, the debate continues. Despite warnings that privatizing public education is a recipe in which profit takes precedence over learning, the Edison Project is beginning to attract more serious consideration. Most of Edison's schools (25 altogether) are still too new to show definitive results, but initial reports from pioneers...
...larger markets, regional jets are being used to complement the big tubes. Cincinnati to New York's LaGuardia is one of the Comair routes that was out of range of the turboprops. Delta, the nation's third largest carrier, is using Comair's smaller jets in at least two dozen cities--among them Minneapolis, Orlando, Kansas City and Philadelphia--to adjust capacity when demand is too low for bigger jets. Delta has pulled 737s or MD-80s out of such cities as St. Louis, Allentown and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and let Comair offer service. "All our service now from...