Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...locomotive, Chan was nonetheless hindered at every turn by the inertial drag of school bureaucracy. California's education code runs to 6,000-plus pages. Most of it seems designed to generate more paper: local schools are required to send reams of forms to district offices before they can fix a broken window, change the school menu, take a class on a field trip or buy new textbooks. To make real innovations, Chan found herself perpetually fighting for waivers. In 1992, when California enacted a charter-school law, Chan was one of the first to apply. "We wanted the waiver...
...stuck together like Gummi Bears, Jack Kemp and William Bennett, both ambitious men unlikely to buck their party, tried appealing to conscience. While acknowledging that illegal immigration must be stopped, they argued that Prop 187 is a nativist measure that appeals to the angry and won't fix the problem. The measure, said Kemp, would "corrode the soul of the party." Bennett warned, "It is going to label all immigrants; it is going to turn into a war of colors, a war of races -- it's bad stuff. It is poison in a democracy...
...certainly your patriotic duty to revel in Kubrick's extraordinary film. Don't be surprised if you come out of the Brattle more thoughtful about the nuclear arms race. But you won't by thinking about such trivialities in the theater. Kubrick and his cast will fix Dr. Strangelove's own death grip on you--uncontrollable laughter...
...consulting and investment banking firms put in to attracting undergraduates is all the more reason OCS should emphasize the other opportunities available. We suspect that many about to leave for the working world are receiving a distorted picture of what's available; the Career Forum did not help to fix that image...
E.A.I., one of the most controversial young corporations in the country, has long searched for a whole district that would put its methods to the test. Under the five-year contract, which starts immediately, E.A.I. will pay the bills, buy supplies, fix buildings, shape curriculum, train teachers and, when it's all over, pocket half of every dollar, if any, it saves the city of Hartford. The company said it would immediately pump $1.6 million into fixing the most ramshackle buildings, and another $14 million into new technology. The board remains in final control, and can cancel the contract...