Word: highs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media interviews President Clinton lives to regret once his term is over, few will rank as high as last week's conversation on trade with the Seattle Post Examiner. In a hotel-room conversation with the paper's Michael Paulson while anti-WTO demonstrations raged outside, Clinton casually suggested that the U.S. should ultimately impose sanctions on nations that violate a set of core labor standards...
Every team has its share of good games and bad games. Though we have high expectations for Coach Mark Mazzoleni, his system is still new and the Crimson is bound to stumble a few times along...
...pass was too high for the 5'6 Monti to handle as it bounced out of bounds for a turnover, and the play was indicative of a problem plaguing the Crimson over the weekend...
...enchilada of educational measurement - the percentage of kids who graduate from high school - remains stalled at 86 percent. Improving this is a much tougher proposition. Unlike early childhood education, for which there are widely accepted models for success, high school is an area that education leaders aren't quite sure how to address. In the '90s some states experimented with vouchers, while most raised their targets for student achievement on standardized tests. That hasn't been very successful; just last week, for example, Arizona announced that only 1 in 10 sophomores passed a new state math test, and states...
...course, it makes sense - loneliness is the enemy for most here, and this place can be hard on what they call the "mental housing," especially for the de-feminized females whose boyfriends have stopped writing. But for those far beyond high school - and thus for the most part far beyond needing clamor to keep one's mind off this place's occasional rigors - it's the clamor that threatens to corner...