Word: linked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main argument against the tests in the U.S. is that there is no necessary link between such exercises and better education. "You cannot test intellectual habits," argues Theodore Sizer, an educational-reform thinker based in Providence who heads the Coalition of Essential Schools. He feels it would be better to leave matters where they stand...
...worth at least $410,000 to join in underwriting syndicates. In good times the names share their syndicate's profits; in bad times they are liable for all its losses and must be prepared to hand over their personal assets to cover that liability -- down to the last cuff link, as the City saying goes...
...arranged his own fate. For several weeks, he negotiated with the government through an intermediary to settle the fine points of his incarceration. He personally selected a jail that boasts virtually impregnable security. The facility has in recent weeks been encircled with an electrified 15-ft.-high chain link fence topped by barbed wire, and outfitted with four 30-ft. observation posts. All of this is not to keep Escobar in -- it is to keep his enemies out. That includes national and secret police, who will not be permitted to enter the 2.5-acre compound. Instead, officials of Envigado...
...easy to mistake Sununu's value to Bush as merely that of an unshakable link to the G.O.P.'s right wing. In fact, Sununu's real value is the role he plays as the President's enforcer, the "abominable no man," who acts as a lightning rod for the well-liked Commander in Chief. But Sununu's ethical lapses are now backfiring on Bush, causing the President such embarrassment that Sununu's future is in doubt. Some officials who never liked Sununu but balked at criticizing him feel less restrained now that he is under fire. Several of them suggested...
...This week in Santa Barbara, citizens will vote on a special bond issue to link the city to the state water system. The choice is difficult because while state-supplied water would help relieve severe drought conditions, it might also encourage a burst of unwanted new development that many residents fear could turn the exclusive coastal enclave into a Los Angeles suburb...