Word: lockstepping
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...McCandless (Emile Hirsch) graduated from Emory University in 1992 and decided he needed a little time to himself before joining the bourgeois lockstep. It is a little difficult to see what's bugging him. His father (William Hurt) is a successful, self-made businessman, who is perhaps a little too sternly conventional in his views. His mother (Marcia Gay Harden) is a perhaps a little too softly so and, yes, there are strains in their marriage. But they are scarcely monsters, and the values they represent, though stodgy, are not exactly oppressive. Plenty of young people have slithered through...
...Advocates for gifted kids consider one of the most pernicious results to be "cooperative learning" arrangements in which high-ability students are paired with struggling kids on projects. Education professor Miraca Gross of the University of New South Wales in Sydney has called the current system a "lockstep curriculum ... in what is euphemistically termed the 'inclusion' classroom." The gifted students, she notes, don't feel included...
BOTTOM LINE Oil and gasoline prices move together in the long term but in the short term aren't always in lockstep. The disequilibrium won't last, since there's no profit in making cheap gas from expensive oil. Safest bet? Either oil falls, or gas rises...
...most pressing issue of the day - Iraq - Bush and Brown appeared to be in lockstep. Both emphasized that decisions about the deployment of U.S. and British troops would be driven by reports from the field, not hometown political pressures. "In Iraq we have duties to discharge and responsibilities to keep," said Brown, who emphasized that the 5,500 British soldiers there have moved from combat to "over-watch" of Iraqi forces in three of four provinces in the south of Iraq. The decision to change posture in the fourth area, Basra province, said Brown, "will be made on military advice...
...There has lately been speculation here that Blair might break with the White House and start talking to Hamas on his own. But if the former British Prime Minister's lockstep support of Bush policy in Iraq is any guide - a loyalty that led to Blair's political downfall - Blair's moderating influence over the Americans is close to nil. "It's all just more of the same," said a British diplomat, muttering bitterly into his cups at a Jerusalem cocktail party last week. Welcome to the Middle East...