Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Horrocks, who originally was an elementary school special education teacher in Houston, says she believes there are very hard-working and intelligent public school teachers, but maintains that the level of teachers at Banneker is exceptionally high...
...Birkett says the predominantly black environment adds to the comfort level of students and lets them excel...
...nation's largest association of business owners to step up its support of business-friendly congressional candidates. Portraying itself as the striving entrepreneur being bullied by both big labor and big government, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce unleashed its first-ever plan to donate directly to federal-level political campaigns; about $100,000 will be donated to each of 47 mostly Republican congressional candidates. The chamber says it is worried by many of the issues being bandied about by presidential hopefuls, from Bill Bradley's calls for better family benefits to Al Gore's environmentalism to John McCain's push...
...school." Actually, not in the school. One of the peculiarities of life in Webster Groves is that in a community in which Catholicism is the largest Christian denomination, and in a school that has no on-campus prayer groups, the most important weekday social event is Club, the entry level of a national Evangelical group called Young Life...
...years, Young Life has specialized in gathering "unchurched" teens back into the religious fold; officially nondenominational, Young Life has a strong Evangelical Protestant base. Wednesday-night Club is its accessible first level; the second is Camp, a $500, one-week stay at a Young Life facility. The third is Campaigners, a small group that convenes at the Adams' home Fridays at 6 a.m. for prayer, fellowship and mutual exhortation: to bring new kids to Club. Of tonight's hearty choristers, Adams estimates, 120 will end up trying Camp. Of those, he predicts, "probably 70% will give their life to Christ...