Word: links
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...link between self-governance and student performance is clear at some schools, unclear at others. Yet this spotty record is unlikely to mar school- based management's bright future. In May Citibank gave $2.4 million to help nine Washington, D.C., schools get their plans under way. Dade County has taken the notion a step further, asking principals and teachers to submit ideas for creating 49 new schools from the ground up. Seven are now in the planning-and-building stage. More innovations are sure to come. School districts may find that giving teachers and parents the right to make decisions...
...active in the campaign to save the purity of Lake Baikal. In light of his anti-Western, nationalist and anti-Semitic views, his appointment to the Presidential Council surprised many. Though Rasputin is not a member of the Communist Party, Gorbachev may view him as a communications link to an important segment of the population...
...ordinary roach.") But he may settle for a dog. "There are already cases of dogs that love to join their masters in hang gliders," he muses, leaning back and staring into space. "There are dogs that happily get exercise on a treadmill." Pause. "Dog-powered flight would complete the link." Paul MacCready is daydreaming again...
Comstock, who negotiated the 1943 agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe colleges that provided for women students' guaranteed education by Harvard faculty, "made every effort to link Harvard to Radcliffe, or filled the void in a way beneficial to both," Solomon said...
...alternative approach. One key element would be to institutionalize European development and establish totally new structures on a Pan-European basis, naturally with the U.S. and Canada actively involved. Another would be to synchronize the political and disarmament processes with the pace of German unification, or at least link them as closely as possible. Incidentally, in our view, this synchronization is one of the main functions of the "two plus four" mechanism ((the current negotiations among the wartime Allies -- the U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union -- plus the two Germanys...