Word: granted
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Clinton's agenda focuses on improving American education at all levels, from elementary school to college and beyond. He has already expanded Pell Grants and made the interest on student loans tax-deductible to make college more affordable and accessible. One of his proposals would reduce class sizes in the first to third grades by hiring more teachers and providing a school construction tax cut. He has also proposed a G.I. Bill for Workers, consolidating the multitude of federal job training programs into one skills grant to give unemployed workers the flexibility to choose the most suitable training program...
...appellate court ruled in the same manner and did not grant the injunction, citing an affidavit Johnson-Powell signed stating she has "no intention to and will not represent [herself] as being certified," according to The Boston Globe...
...grant Redmond that we as Harvard students do have obligations to others. I was always taught, and firmly believe, that from those to whom the most has been given, the most is expected. However, I disagree with Redmond's leap from the idea that we have obligations to our fellow humans to the idea that those obligations require us to elect a "progressive" council president and vice president to fulfill them...
...this President, so publicly fixated on the 21st century, is spending his private hours pondering the quiescent, almost forgotten stretches of the 19th, the times Clinton calls "fallow periods." The biographies he has devoured lately include those of such unimpressive Chief Executives as Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant. He even had adviser Sidney Blumenthal dig up a copy of what passed for a State of the Union address when the hapless John Quincy Adams sought to steady his presidency...
...alarmists are right only in that there ismuch to fear today. But if the academic world wereto grant the conclusion that there is little or nohope, the baleful predictions might well cometrue. When more universities reject self pity andtake instead a forthright stand against eachunfounded attack, the education can match in itsown defense that spirit of progress and initiativewhich has marked its advance in every otherintellectual endeavor...