Word: fulcrum
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...MCAS is the stakes attaching - for the first time this year - to performance on the 10th grade test. These stakes are a distinct policy intervention designed to create incentives for effort and performance. The stakes make the test results matter, they make performance count. The stakes are the fulcrum of the accountability system, an essential, pivotal component. They create the urgency, the push to dislodge the low expectations that characterize the status quo, and creates the widely disparate impact of our current, ineffective and unequal system of public schooling...
...Palestinian issue, on the other hand, has become an open sore that continues to erode the long-term strength of Washington's war on terror. The Palestinian plight has become the fulcrum on which the Muslim world's attitudes toward the West turn - and despite the hopes of some Administration hawks, that's unlikely to change even if the U.S. pulls off regime change in Baghdad. As much as the U.S. - and many Palestinians too - would like to see regime change in Palestine, it won't happen so long as Israeli tanks keep the West Bank in lockdown and allow...
...foreign student and I was president of The Crimson. I was expected to have views on just about everything—and usually, I did. But over the course of my four years here, I was forced to completely rethink why I thought what I did. The fulcrum of my about-face: the Living Wage Campaign...
Eight top analysts left Legg Mason last June to found Precursor Group, based in Washington. Led by former ING Barings ceo Michael Petrycki, another group of analysts broke away last May to form Fulcrum Global Partners, based in New York City. They join well-established Sanford C. Bernstein among the boutique firms selling stock research unfettered by investment-banking concerns. Individual investors generally can't get research from these firms, which are paid in commissions from hedge funds or mutual funds that act on the firms' recommendations. But select, full research reports are available at prices as high as several...
...Alfred Thomas, Loeb associate professor of the humanities, refers to Prague as a "fulcrum at the center of the European experience...