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...then he drove it further. "Most school systems tend to have no standards and tons of regulations," says Ravitch. "Bush reversed the paradigm, and backed higher standards and fewer regulations, leaving districts free to teach how they want as long as they get results." He reduced the regulatory authority of the Texas education agency but increased accountability by beefing up and enforcing state standards. Most important, he started tracking results by race and ethnicity, rewarding schools that boost performance--especially minority performance. He also took on state teachers' colleges, telling them that 70% of graduates in each minority group must...
Meanwhile, a select few continue to reap the benefits of FSCs. Only about two-tenths of 1% of corporations that file tax returns have an FSC. Of those that do, fewer than 50 big exporters enjoy most of the tax benefits. Among them: AlliedSignal, Boeing, Caterpillar and Motorola, which together have escaped payment of more than $600 million in federal income tax over the past three years, thanks to their FSCs...
...probably right. The best houses and designs of the era stripped away all that was extraneous, somehow enhancing the natural grace of the form that was left. The houses are shelters instead of enclosures; residents dwell in them while dwelling simultaneously in the outside environment. There are fewer elements in the open plan of the houses, but each has purpose. And instead of adding bulk, the steel enables rooms, staircases and mezzanines to float, and spaces to take on unique forms...
...Century is a journalists' even-handed and vivid narrative of epochal global events and decisive mood changes in the nation's character. On the '70s: " ...the need to feel 'guilt free' in one's private life, to act without a sense of limits, became, for many, paramount. Thus...fewer trips to the confessional (though decidedly more visits to psychotherapists), freer attitudes toward sex, and a new vocabulary entry that described just about anyone with a private conscience as possessed of 'hang...
Nigel was still having some difficulty understanding how the Democrats are considered to have won the election by ending up with a dozen fewer House seats than the Republicans--something that would not be true in the parliamentary system...