Word: musts
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...since the council's constitution would need to be amended to reduce its size, three-quarters of the members must approve such a measure. Thus a smaller council has remained a pipe dream of its leaders...
...bill would attach the referendum to the presidential ballot later this month, along with a referendum to increase the council's term bill fee. For the referendum to be binding, at least as many students as voted in the first election of the school year must vote...
This crisis is the result of the implementation of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), a series of statewide standardized tests that every high school student must pass to graduate, beginning with the class of 2003. This high-stakes, high-standards test is the first in the nation to require students to reach what may be a prohibitively high level of competence for the average student. For months, educators and parents around the state have been waiting with bated breath to see what grade would constitute a passing mark on this test. That grade was revealed on Nov. 23, when...
...public-health community must find a way to pry apart the beauty and disease-control facets of the obesity debate, as raised in the article "Will We Keep Getting Fatter?" [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 8]. Actress Camryn Manheim is overweight and lovely. So is my wife. No one wants a nation of size-8 robots. I'd settle for an effective battle against extreme obesity (starting in infancy) and getting everyone into exercising more. That should improve health without terrorizing the merely plump or pinning our hopes on a magic pill. CHRIS FOREMAN Takoma Park...
...trillion. Other board members conceded that Hollings' numbers were correct but strongly quarreled with his interpretations. Kasich, Munnell and Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers all insisted that internal-transfer payments do not burden the government as a whole; it is the $3.5 trillion borrowed from the public that must be repaid or refinanced...