Word: expanded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...poet sang. If he can swing the legislation without significant alterations, Howard will have started a cultural and economic dynamic that will change Australia forever. Over the coming years, workers' capacity to strike will be limited, the income gap between workers with highly prized skills and those without will expand, the role of unions (already losing their relevance) will decline, and Australians' ideas about the relationship between bosses and workers and about a fair-wage safety net will be revolutionized. In Canberra and beyond, Howard and his ministers have been extolling the proposed new system's fairness, choice and protections...
...this tragedy would pass us by." Instead, the persistent insurgency in the North Caucasus keeps spreading - and what began in late 1994 as a war of secession in Chechnya is mutating into an Islamist jihad as it spills across the region. Russian officials have regularly dismissed rebel threats to expand the war. Yet over the past two years fighting has progressed west from Chechnya to Ingushetia and North Ossetia, where last year hundreds died in the Beslan school siege. In the past 12 months, there have been almost daily attacks in Dagestan to the east. Now, the insurgency has moved...
...Boch agrees. “It’s probably the best space on campus. The Cage is a great way to rock a lot of people.”Beyond fixing the broken P.A. system and continuing to provide plentiful free beer, the Cage this year looks to expand its horizons to include performances by nationally known indie acts. On this year’s plans, Sherrill explains, “We’re trying to increase the quality of shows, to give people an incentive to come other than beer.”The importation of major...
...Study abroad isn’t integral to a [science] student’s concentration in the way it might be to someone in the humanities discipline,” Haig says. “The students I see studying abroad are wanting in most cases to expand their education outside of the concentration.”Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez says it is the “comparative” and “international” components of the social sciences and humanities that encourage other students to go abroad—aspects that...
...love within us somewhere—otherwise, we probably couldn’t have made it here.5. Teach to learn and re-learn: In order to design a coherent and engaging curriculum, a teacher must literally take up the role of historian, physicist, etc. Teachers have to reconstruct and expand their own understanding of what they already know in order to convey it to their students. As Orin Gutlerner, director of the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program (UTEP), puts it, “A lot of people perceive K-12 teaching as an intellectually deadening experience, something that?...