Word: exerts
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...They tell public officials whether new school programs are making a difference and where new investments are likely to pay off. They tell teachers what their students have learned--and have not. They tell parents how their children are doing compared with others their age. They encourage students to exert more effort...
...They tell public officials whether new school programs are making a difference and where new investments are likely to pay off. They tell teachers what their students have learned - and have not. They tell parents how their children are doing compared with others their age. They encourage students to exert more effort...
...rounds, and just 30 will make it to the final show. But the deluge of applicants continues. "People have definitely become very, very aspirational," says Pradeep Guha, president of the Times group, who decides on the shortlist. "I have had parents come in and cry, plead, threaten and even exert political pressure to push their child...
...Privacy advocates were a little less thrilled. The main beef: Although consumers will now be allowed to opt out of the collection of anonymous data on the Internet for the purpose of profiling, they'll have to exert some effort...
...particularly suspicious of any "heartburn" that gets worse if you walk around or otherwise exert yourself physically. "One of my [heart attack] patients ordered out for miso soup to treat her 'indigestion,'" says Dr. Marianne Legato, director of the Partnership for Women's Health at Columbia in New York City and author of The Female Heart. "Fortunately, her daughter stopped by, noticed her ashen color and slurred speech and got her to the hospital...