Word: higher
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...clampdown on social promotion, New York City hired 1,100 new teachers and put all retained kids in classes of 18 or fewer. But the students' scores gained no more than those of comparable low achievers who had been promoted in previous years. And by high school they had higher dropout rates...
...were polled said they were unhappy with their local police. It was a smaller number than might be expected at a time of prominent police-brutality cases, including the trial of three New York City officers accused of assaulting Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. But it was a far higher number than the 10% of whites unhappy with police...
BONE BUILDERS Elderly women concerned about osteoporosis may have a kinder, gentler way to build strong bones. Low doses of hormone-replacement therapy, combined with calcium and vitamin D supplements, produce minimal side effects and may increase bone mass just as effectively as today's higher-dose hormone regimens...
...Maryland assembly by delegate Mark Shriver, nephew of the martyred John Kennedy (and one of 29 grandchildren of Joe and Rose). And it could fall under the growing political hand of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, oldest child of the murdered Robert Kennedy, now Maryland's lieutenant governor and touted for higher office...
...charged what the market would bear, I'm sure the Harvard tuition would be a great deal higher than it is!" Lewis wrote in an e-mail message...