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...transcripts. By no longer ranking students, the Naperville School District 203 is squarely in line with a trend that is fast sweeping the nation, as more and more private and public schools are dropping the practice. The goal, proponents say, is to cut down on the hyper-competition and lessen the stress at such a critical learning point and maturation curve in kids' lives...
...appetites lessen, I guess I'm more and more easily disgusted by the fact that we're living in this society committed to making us spend more than we have, or more than we should, for stuff we don't really need or want, and that furthermore is killing us slowly as well as filling all the landfills and making the birds sing less...
...summer recess, nor are they allowed to collect unemployment benefits for those three months, said Adams House cook Bill Nicolson. They are also not paid during Christmas vacation, intercession, and spring break. As a result, dining hall workers are often forced to use their 10 paid vacation days to lessen the impact of the unpaid weeks during intercession and spring break. “If I miss a week’s pay I can’t pay my bills,” said Nicolson. “I save money out of my weekly pay check while...
...generous to all the groups they need to hold in those seats they claim by the narrowest of margins. The major reforms to superannuation will make Baby Boomers more relaxed about retirement; it may keep some of them, and the next generation, in work a few years longer to lessen the economic fallout of an ageing population...
...every member of this community aspires to create the former. This incident is hardly paradigmatic, but is instead indicative of the human flaws that plague even those who seem to have it all.In no way have we enjoyed witnessing the fall of our peer, nor do we intend to lessen the seriousness of her transgression by pointing to the improprieties of others. What she did was wrong; we are, quite simply, disappointed...