Word: minuses
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...state's public high schools. When an aide told them there was no time in his schedule--the test takes more than 18 hours--the students handed over a poster-size report card on the Governor's program to raise academic performance. His marks: an incomplete, a D-minus...
...Wednesday, I'll be describing in very clear terms the contrast, the overall Social Security plan that I am proposing along with the new incentives for private savings that we call Social Security Plus, and I'll point out the differences between my plan and Social Security Minus, Governor Bush's plan...
...private savings accounts, but they should come on top of the foundation of Social Security. That's why I call it Social Security Plus. The difference is, that Governor Bush proposes to drain $1 trillion out of the Social Security trust fund, which makes this plan Social Security minus...
...both remember and forget. The Murrah Building wall and the shell of the Journal Record newspaper building behind the Survivor Tree were deliberately preserved to recall the destructiveness, the ugliness, of the bombing. Without them, the memorial would look solely like a pastoral landscape--soothing and quietly evocative, yet minus clues that something terrible had taken place. "One does not enshrine the violence," says Linenthal, "but it is necessary to retain some edge." He believes modern memorials provide "a sense of turning to the past for orientation, cautionary tales and moral lessons. They are seen as ways to correct...
...serving door outside the dining room. One side has shelves. The other is flat. Food would be brought up from the basement kitchen and placed on the shelves on the outer side of the door. It would then be swung around. What did Jefferson and his guests see? Dinner, minus the slaves who prepared...