Word: hollowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more waffling on whether teacher testing should be required. It should. No more hollow promises that education will be job one. Let's face it: during the Weld/Cellucci administration, a focus on education was woefully absent. No more knee-jerk reactions to bad test scores. The governor needs to set the tone for an informed and reasoned debate about the best way to train and test our state's future teachers...
...even belong in the top five. The magic of the '27 season derived in large part from uncanny luck: the team was so free of injury that six of its eight position players enjoyed more than 500 at bats. A good thing this was, for Murderers' Row obscured a hollow bench whose most productive resident, catcher Johnny Grabowski, contributed exactly one home run and 25 runs batted...
...then faced with a problem: the rest of the world defines her by this admittedly arbitrary and superficial standard of success. But once here, this distinction is no longer so distinctive. In the midst of this impressive bunch, she must figure out how to maintain this hollow distinction...
...Yorkers managed to get giddy again Wednesday night after the brutal Yankees won their second World Series in three years, but this 1998 edition was just a tiny bit hollow. Sure, there were lots of free drinks, and complete strangers bonded after watching George Steinbrenner cry on TV. But did these Yankees even need fans...
...Schindler's List. There are no barbed-wire fences, no gas chambers, no emaciated and hollow-eyed figures to tear at your soul and disturb your sleep with nightmares. There are simply the before and after, leaving the audience the job of filling in the gaps...