Word: grades
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...communist forces took over Laos and Vietnam. Now, the 77-year-old ex-CIA operative, along with nine other Laotian-born Americans and a former U.S. Army ranger who served in Vietnam, is facing potential life imprisonment for purportedly trying to send Stinger missiles and other high-grade weapons to a handful of Hmong guerrillas back home who are fighting to overthrow the government...
...shrinking BA's costs by close to $1 billion, partly through further job cuts. With fewer bills to pay, BA looks set to hit its target operating margin of 10% next year, its highest ever. With its debts reduced, credit agencies have raised the company's rating to investment grade after it tumbled in the wake of 9/11...
...Viking's big guns, its heavy-metal ranges and ovens, are under some pressure from such high-end rivals as Wolf, Thermador and France's La Cornue--should you absolutely need a professional-grade range. Viking also got dinged by low Consumer Reports ratings and persistent complaints about durability and uneven performance. Andrews says it's all relative. "Consumer Reports operates on a value-for-money ratio, and our products are never going to be in the lower-price range," he says. He points to Viking's one-year warranty on parts and labor and a five-year limited warranty...
...President doesn't write eighth grade science books," Huckabee joked, though it fell flat with the audience of about 100. The former Baptist minister then took a different tack: "Look, I wasn't there when the world was started. But I do know that however it was started God was behind...
...alone at age 15. Currently, gifted programs too often admit marginal, hardworking kids and then mostly assign field trips and extra essays, not truly accelerated course work pegged to a student's abilities. Ideally, school systems should strive to keep their most talented students through a combination of grade skipping and other approaches (dual enrollment in community colleges, telescoping classwork without grade skipping) that ensure they won't drop out or feel driven away to Nevada. The best way to treat the Annalisee Brasils of the world is to let them grow up in their own communities--by allowing them...