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...pushing for China's social reforms and development. Today, the Chinese people who are struggling to achieve modernization have made the opening-up a basic state policy and conducted extensive exchanges and cooperation with the rest of the world, thus creating a brand-new situation in its opening-up endeavor in the Chinese history...
...reform and opening-up endeavor is an embodiment and a creative development of the Chinese spirit of constantly striving for self-perfection and renovation in modern times. We refer to our reform and opening-up as socialist reform and opening-up, because they constitute the process of self-improvement and development of the socialist system in China. The practice in [the last] 20 years has eloquently proved rather that we are right in direction, firm in conviction, steady in our steps and gradual in our approach when carrying out the reform and opening-up, and we have achieved tremendous successes...
...argument for academic standards is simple: as in any other endeavor, the people engaged in education need clear goals and a way to determine whether those goals have been met. "When you put rigorous standards in place," says Sandra Feldman, president of the American Federation of Teachers, "it helps parents, teachers and students to know what the expectations are, and it helps measure whether students are meeting those expectations. This is a method of knowing whether children are learning what they need to be learning at a certain...
...prospect of this kind of clash helps explain why White House officials, who grow exceedingly sensitive in discussing anything that involves the First Lady, are vague about what will come out of her latest endeavor. Hillary herself raises a wide range of possibilities: policy recommendations that might be carried out by Executive Order or regulation (like a national registry of day-care workers who have been credibly accused of abuse), new legislation, new state and local programs, better enforcement of the laws already on the books. But the President, in his own interview with TIME, set an ambitious goal...
...Right now this campaign feels like such a huge endeavor, I can't imagine anything else," he said. "I just want to run this thing, win and serving my district well," Carlson said