Word: holds
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...together so they can voluntarily commit themselves to implementing a reform. This creates confidence that other governments will do the same and that there will be a distribution of the change's cost among those who will benefit. When multiple governments commit to combating a particular global problem, they hold each other accountable for their performance with diplomatic or economic pressure...
...easy to understand, even before Columbine but certainly since, why the adults in a high school could conclude that their most important job was less to teach kids than just to keep them safe, hold their hands, feed them, shape them, show them right from wrong. In loco parentis is just the beginning. In loco all the rest of us as well. Politicians and reformers can talk all they want about standards and vouchers and academic performance, but the people on the front lines worry about a lot more than test scores...
Trumbull said the markets should have less government regulation, citing the requirement that coffee shops buy $500 licenses to hold poetry readings as a regulation he disagrees with...
...enclose a battle between two armies in last year's production of Richard III, Kellerman can make the distance between two characters--often no more than a few feet, sometimes as small as a few inches--seem like the most important space in the world. And he can hold an audience breathless waiting not for a shout but for a whimper...
...pistol in his mouth, flirting with the thought of suicide, the audience can't help but wish for him to pull the trigger--at least to end his escalating insanity along with the audience's suffering. Each time, he is interrupted, leaving the audience with no choice but to hold on (just barely) until the end. Even then, the climax of the story, which occurs when Dwayne meets Kilgore in a hotel bar, does nothing but confuse the audience even more. Dwayne comes to believe that he is a character in one of Kilgore's novels, and this realization sparks...