Word: inners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...says he’s looking forward to learning more about the inner workings of the University in his new position...
...lifted off an eager astronaut and returned to Earth a national hero. LIEUT. COLONEL YANG LIWEI orbited the globe 14 times during a 21-hr. mission before touching down in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, making China the third country to successfully send a man into space. Upon his return, Yang had only one regret: "The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see the Great Wall...
...distribute $128 million to his employees; about 80 became instant millionaires. Then Thompson decided to donate most of the rest of his money to public education, preferably in Detroit. After doing some research, he offered $200 million to build 15 small, independent public high schools in the inner city. A few weeks ago, Thompson withdrew his offer after the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) led a furious, and scurrilous, campaign against his generosity. The philanthropist is in seclusion now-friends say he is stunned and distressed-but his is a story that deserves telling...
...Doug Ross, founder of University Preparatory Academy in Detroit. Ross is a prominent New Democrat policy wonk who served in Bill Clinton's Labor Department, then went home to Michigan and ran unsuccessfully for Governor in 1998. "I learned during the campaign there was one overpowering issue for inner-city parents: to get their kids a college education," Ross told me. "I was tired of theoretical policy junk; I wanted to do something that really mattered. It was clear that urban kids were not responding to the industrial-age assembly-line education model-and there were people around the country...
...emerged in 1997 with Ellen’s airport confession to Laura Dern. Since then, Jack McFarland has danced into our hearts with his delicious rendition of “Oops… I Did it Again,” and the Fab 5 have revealed the inner beauty of dozens of hapless heteros (you’d find it under those dead skin cells, boys, if you only exfoliated). Right...