Word: extras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee's report, Lewis suggests that the extra departmental clout that senior Faculty would bring to the role of adviser could help them advocate more strongly on their students' behalf...
...intuition tells me we need to look at the structure to see if we're staffed right," Rudenstine said. "Some extra help will be needed...
President Clinton, speaking at a fundraiser in Boston Tuesday, wisely spent much of the afternoon pitching his plan to improve the quality of the nation's public schools. The proposals, which would spend an extra $4.98 billion on a variety of teacher training and class-size reduction initiatives from his fiscal 2000 budget request, are most significant because they place greater emphasis on school accountability. Under the plan, first unveiled in last month's State of the Union Address, school districts would receive federal funding only if they meet a certain level of minimum standards...
...could prevent colon cancer in the first place? It all started 30 years ago, when a British medical missionary named Denis Burkitt suggested that the reason colon cancer is rare in Africa is that Africans consume much more fiber than North Americans and Europeans. Perhaps, later researchers argued, the extra fiber sweeps the bowel clean of potential carcinogens or somehow alters the intestinal chemistry to retard tumor growth. A few small studies supported the link, while others didn...
...Announces that his official car will be, instead of a luxury sedan, a Lincoln Navigator sport-utility vehicle with extra-strong shocks, "for running over reporters...