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...actually don't have a formal plan on the table yet," he said. "The exact specifics are still unclear...
...Pasquarello added that the police are unsure of the exact amount of money that Dartlett allegedly stole...
Even if true, the exact nature and extent of that link is unclear. Is the effect of watching TV violence brief or lasting? Is TV as important a factor in fostering societal violence as economic poverty, bad schools and broken homes? And in any event, is it really possible--or desirable--to manage kids' exposure to a cultural environment that can never be entirely beneficial or benign? From gangster movies in the '30s to horror comics and rock 'n' roll in the '50s, pop culture has always been strewn with pitfalls for youngsters. Sheltering kids from such things is largely...
...Rush Limbaugh," Schinella says. "I like to get the exact numbers...
...There is broad consensus that standardized test scores can be valuable as one factor, among several, in helping to assess candidates for admission.... The correlation between SAT scores and future academic success, however, is far from exact. It is not uncommon for individuals to outperform (or underperform) what the tests 'predict'--often by significant margins. In addition, the predictive power of the tests diminishes over time...