Word: maintainable
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...each student will sit down to an individual assignment, says Kevin O'Leary, president of educational-software giant the Learning Co. "If you thought of it conceptually as every child having a personal tutor, that's what we're aiming for." The school's server, or central computer, will maintain information on each student's progress and dole out the appropriate work when the child checks the Web page. At Pine Hill School in Sherborn, Mass., some teachers already give different assignments to students in the same classroom. "Most kids may be tested on 20 spelling words, while a couple...
...last week was Hutchinson. Using a pointer and charts as props, he took all the familiar, disparate facts of the case and reassembled them into a coherent, sinister whole. As he went along, Hutchinson punctured a few holes in the Clinton defense. For example, the President's lawyers maintain that Clinton's leading questions to Betty Currie on the day after his deposition in the Paula Jones case could not have been witness tampering because Currie had not been called as a witness. But Hutchinson showed how Clinton had repeatedly suggested to Jones' lawyers that they talk to Currie...
Into Saturday night, ECOMOG fought to maintain control. Since most of the R.U.F. leaders had been killed in the previous few weeks of fighting, most rebel positions in the city were held by 15- and 16-year-old boys, who looted and burned huge swaths of downtown. ECOMOG forces patrolling Freetown's main streets were continually harassed by Kalashnikov-wielding teenagers who slipped from dark alleys, machine-gunned them for 15 or 30 seconds and then slipped away again. After sunset the teenagers, many of them high on local hallucinogens, set houses on fire--night candles, they called them...
...doesn't the ID office maintain the Crimson Cash program...
...charges against the President don't meet the constitutional standard for impeachment, they'll first try to systematically refute the prosecution's case on key factual issues -- which is why it may ultimately suit them to lose the battle over calling witnesses. Of course, the White House will publicly maintain its opposition to witnesses -- if only to make sure that the political cost of a drawn-out, messy trial is born by the Republicans...