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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the positive results of the study, Peterson does not recommend drastic changes based on its findings, but instead suggests that policies and programs should be created that are consistent with the data drawn from similar experiments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Study Links Test Scores With School Conditions | 8/13/1996 | See Source »

...after a meeting of Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee. Says Ensign: "We both looked at each other and said, 'This is crazy!' " What was crazy, they thought, was a decision of the G.O.P. congressional leadership to keep welfare reform combined in a single bill with drastic changes in Medicaid. That bill would be guaranteed to draw a third Clinton veto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RIPPING UP WELFARE | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...anyone familiar with the litany of distress knows, choice in some form is appealing. Falling test scores, rising dropout rates and poor teaching demand drastic change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POLITICAL INTEREST: NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

...second of only three female mayors of Cambridge, including current Mayor Sheila T. Russell, Wolf said that women are still a drastic minority in Massachusetts government...

Author: By Elisheva A. Lambert, | Title: Alice Wolf Discusses Campaigning Views | 7/26/1996 | See Source »

...money, while clearly having no intention of doing so. On a disastrous yachting trip on which Tom gets sunstroke, Philipe throws Marg's manuscript overboard, and Marg demands to be put ashore, it becomes clear that the tension between Philipe and Tom will soon lead to a drastic measure on one of their parts. A marooning, a stabbing, a forgery, a feigned suicide, a seduction, a framing and what seems like "the perfect crime" are all necessary to sate their rivalry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Quasi-Americans Abroad | 7/9/1996 | See Source »

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