Word: eager
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crack down on the truant teachers. While their "behavior is unacceptable," he maintains, "parents are responsible for students many more hours than teachers and have got to do some monitoring of homework." But what happens when such home support is lacking? While their suburban peers return home to parents eager to boot up the computer to help with a research paper, many inner-city students don't have the same resources or have parents who are undereducated or too busy making ends meet to help with homework...
...spent several months devising a formal policy that requires "meaningful and purposeful" homework at all grade levels but limits the load according to age and mandates that some of it be optional. Besides helping students build their homework appetite over time, the policy aims to persuade the academically more eager parents that it's safe to back...
Unlike Reidt, celebrity chef Nick Stellino wasless eager to please and more ready to jolt casualculinary browsers...
...part of the truce agreement to end the Gulf War. It had a simple mission: to verify the destruction of Saddam's remaining missile, chemical- and biological-weapons capability. But U.N. inspectors quickly hit a wall: Saddam had no intention of cooperating with their inspections. So, eager to do their jobs, they turned from monitoring to spying to uncover his hidden caches. In interviews with key intelligence and military officials, TIME has pieced together that slow slide into espionage--one that peaked last March when a specially trained operative from the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency slipped into Iraq...
...hires eager to sock money away in a 401(k) plan, the wait may be over. Thanks to a change in tax regulations taking effect this month, companies no longer have a financial incentive to make new employees wait up to a year before becoming eligible for these tax-deferred savings plans. Some 70% of firms impose a waiting period; ask your new boss about reaping the benefits...