Word: endless
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...1970s, when students filled in endless phonics work sheets and read inane basals, and teachers felt overly controlled, whole language exercised a strong attraction. By the 1980s, it had come to dominate the teachers colleges and was strongly influencing publishers. Chall argues that the shift from a code emphasis to a meaning emphasis hurt reading scores. Citing National Assessment of Educational Progress data, she has written, "[F]rom 1971 to 1980 there was a steady improvement in the reading comprehension of nine-year-olds. However, during the 1980s...the scores did not improve and rather declined...
...topics of choice--preserving low-income housing, encouraging the arts and supporting neighborhood cohesiveness--manifested themselves in an endless laundry list of not-so-polemical ideas...
Sure, buy-and-hold is all but foolproof for those with diverse portfolios, an endless time horizon and supreme confidence that they'll never need to raise money in a pinch. But how about the other 99% of humanity? For them, the market holds risk, and some sense of that risk is precisely what's missing today and, oddly, what may make the market riskier than ever...
Lincoln, a suburb outside of Boston and adjacent to Concord, has a conservation area that is made up of an intricate network of excellent hiking trails and is an easy commute from Harvard Square. The choice of trails is endless in the conservation land and you can even make your way to the famous Walden Pond in Concord (where you can still swim if you're feeling particularly brave...
...Truths dovetailed with the Hindu scheme of reincarnation: we are reborn again and again, in an endless and wearying cycle called samsara, each life affected by the good and bad deeds performed in previous existences, according to a system called karma. The attainment of Nirvana allows us finally to step away from what one writer called "the squirrel cage of birth and rebirth" and enter into oneness with the cosmos. From the beginning, a practice of meditation was the chief mechanism to gain the awareness necessary for enlightenment...