Word: majority
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...really been up and running just over a month," Cronin says. "As far as I know, there have been no major moving-in kind of issues...
Harvard is once again the prohibitive favorite to repeat in the Ivy, although Yale and Dartmouth will provide the major competition in the Red Rolfe Division...
...ensure that the awards are given todeserving professors, both students and Facultymembers play a role in selecting the winners. CUEguide evaluations, which students fill out at theend of every course, are a major part of theselection criteria...
Congress stood poised to pass its first major piece of social legislation on Thursday. The subject, education, allows both parties to show they care about everyone's favorite constituency: children. The House passed and the Senate was expected to pass a bipartisan "ed-flex bill" that would allow states greater flexibility in spending federal education funds. The bill is non-controversial, says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson "because it expands nationwide a pilot program that now exists in 12 states." It is popular, he adds, because it gives both parties the political cover they need to show they are getting...
...thing with the money," says TIME Washington correspondent Ann Blackman. The effect is more likely to be spotty and uneven. The real issue in education these days, says Blackman, is teacher pay and teacher quality, and there in little is the bill to address these problems systematically. Even the major point of contention between the parties--a Democratic amendment, defeated in the House, for money to hire 100,000 new teachers--comes up short on the matter. The hiring of 100,000 teachers by itself does not assure better teachers, says Blackman...