Word: mix
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...initiatives are a mix of old and new. He increased state funding for Head Start and set academic achievement standards. He also pushed through a proposal to test teachers for competency and fine parents who tolerated student truancy...
Since the 1960s, when federal judges ordered the desegregation of hundreds of school systems, one key question has gone unanswered: at what point had a system done enough to mix black and white children in the classroom to satisfy the courts...
...would a free Quebec deal with the mix of English and French...
...sagging sales, record companies are rediscovering the appeal of black rock 'n' roll. Virgin Records has signed up neohippie Lenny Kravitz, whose latest record, Mama Said, has sold about 2 million copies worldwide. Sony Music produces Fishbone, seven musical renegades who have attracted a cult following with their energetic mix of rock, punk and funk. Elektra Records is pushing Eric Gales, 17, a wunderkind who leads a musically adventurous three-man band. Epic recently released a debut album by Eye & I, a genre-busting quintet propelled by the lusty vocals of female singer DK Dyson. And pop music maestro Quincy...
Acceptance of nonsense as a harmless aberration can be dangerous to us. We live in a society that is enlarging the boundaries of knowledge at an unprecedented rate, and we cannot keep up with much more than a small portion of what is made available to us. To mix our data input with childish notions of magic and fantasy is to cripple our perception of the world around us. We must reach for the truth, not for the ghosts of dead absurdities...