Word: elements
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School officials insist that the racial data are just one small element in a comprehensive plan to help Cincinnati teachers deal with discipline problems. "It is a time-honored method of enforcing civil rights laws to keep statistics," says William Taylor, another attorney for the plaintiffs. "There is no reason to believe that the information will be misused." Brandt says "an administrator needs good info." He has a point. Even assuming that teachers are justified in sending twice as many blacks as whites to the assistant principal -- nationwide, black students are disciplined in disproportionate numbers -- what about the teacher...
Launching what is bound to be months of congressional voting and revoting on a health-care reform package, the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health voted 6 to 5 to require employers to pay most of their workers' insurance, a key element in the President's plan...
...meets Orlando pining for her love. Befriending him under her false indentity, she forces Orlando to court her as if she were Rosalind. The pair play this twisted charade as an agonizing process, reducing both of them to emotional ground beef. Here they are both in their element: red-eyed, sullen, resentful and argumentative in the throes of life's most beautiful emotion, love...
...There are always going to be some people who aren't going to make the effort to understand what someone's saying," Robertson says. "Frankly, there is an element of racism that is just barely being covered up by the excuse of student's interests...
...Catherine is mercurial, jumping frenziedly from one activity to the next. She goes out with them dressed as a man, and at one point throws herself into the Seine as they are walking home from the theater. For Jules and Jim, Catherine functions as a catalyst; she introduces an element of unpredictability, excitement and danger into their lives...