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...renovations, which Zewinski described as "modest," will bring the building more into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities...
While these mayors can't yet proclaim victory, the health of public education in many cities has been so lousy for so long that even modest progress gets hailed as a breakthrough. In most takeovers, city hall has delivered a fiscal and academic accountability that pulls budgets out of the red while improving, albeit modestly, overall student achievement. "Principals, teachers and administrators were there for life and couldn't be removed or forced to change," says Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. "We have shaken things up when necessary...
...late or right on time," he says. "But I plan to...do everything humanly possible to ensure that teachers have the textbooks they've requested and anything that needs to be replaced, repainted or repaired inside our schools before teachers and students return in September." These may seem modest initial goals. But perhaps, as in Chicago four years ago, any progress at all will be welcomed by Detroit's students and parents alike...
...should acknowledge that Pat, a friend of mine from Kansas City who was in the flour business, regularly had ideas that some people, particularly his wife, did not take completely seriously. For instance, the deterioration of his boyhood neighborhood gave him the idea that, for a modest sum, he could buy the house he was born in and turn it into a national shrine...
...blend At a banquet, Mrs. Clinton donned an ahrouy, a type of robe, and tahrouyt, an ornate shawl. Chelsea wore a more modest shepherd's robe and head wrap...