Word: furthers
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EL SALVADOR is further than ever from a stable democracy. The economy is now entirely dependent on United States aid. One-third of El Salvador's citizens are refugees. Government planes continue to bomb the countryside. The nation is politically unstable and enmeshed in civil war.
Yet even Bennett's critics agree that American schools need further improvement. The past five years has indeed brought about tighter graduation requirements and stricter teacher standards backed by better pay. But most of the progress has come in affluent areas, where students are best equipped to respond to increased...
With the federal deficit at $150 billion a year, it is unlikely that shrunken programs can be beefed up significantly over the next several years, regardless of who moves into the White House in January. But there is little dispute over what a President Bush or a President Dukakis should...
Keough escaped the inning without further damage, but Al Grossgouth came out in the top of the third to relieve him. Grossguth simply kept the Crimson hitless over the next 5 2/3 innings, retiring Harvard in order in the third, fourth, sixth and seventh frames.
"I thought about it for quite a while," he added. "I'm very happy about it. It's not often one gets a chance to say, 'Well, I've done it all and I can't go any further.'"