Word: implementation
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Such unfair measures are easy to implement, but a more insidious use of standardized scores for young children does damage which is far less visible. The existence of widespread and continuous testing makes easier a process many school nationwide have been practicing for some time-"weeding out" the very talented and the very slow for "magnet" or "alternative" tracked program, which then remain totally separate from the larger group...
...Israel's strategy may be to delay implementation of the Reagan initiative until a year passes, and then it would be very difficult to implement it. But I have heard from the Israelis several times that they are going to withdraw from Lebanon and that they have no interest in staying there...
...confirmed, Elizabeth Dole will take over a department where political astuteness, rather than transportation expertise, is the watchword. She will be responsible for portioning out billions of dollars to states and cities for highway, airport and mass-transit programs. She will have to implement many of the policies put into effect by Lewis, one of Reagan's most highly regarded Cabinet members. Her biggest challenge will be to complete the rehabilitation of the air-traffic-control system, which was left in shambles after the controllers' walkout in August 1981. She also has to carry...
...passed by the State Legislature will allow Brandeis University to implement a new approach to student loans this fall that could save parents as much as $4000 over four years but Harvard financial officers consider the policy to risky...
...members of the Constitutional Convention drafted the provision which allows undergraduates to force the Council to administer referenda, it was intended to be an accountability measure to prevent the Council from straying too far from student concerns. We did not foresee that political organizations would use this provision to implement referenda on questions of little relevance to the Council itself. No Constitution can be perfect in its first draft, so it should be no great surprise that some things did not work as originally conceived. There is strong feeling in the Council that the Constitution must be amended to clarify...