Word: par
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Nowhere in his report does Rudenstine allow that diversity might pose a problem for excellence. A reader would have to infer that possibility from Rudenstine's avoidance of it. In his thinking, the goal of diversity is on a par with excellence or above it. He says that "the need to sustain rigorous academic standards is clear." But he adds that "the more difficult and genuine challenge" is to secure diversity...
...Coke stays up to par in terms of service they will get all the business," Berry said...
...guise of national emergency were merely thinly veiled methods of suppressing political dissent, sexual offender registration laws have no such hidden motive, unless one wishes to argue that keeping secret from one's neighbors that one has kidnapped and raped people in the past is right on a par with the right to criticize the government and these laws are an attempt to get at the latter by restricting the former...
...course, love. But, with The City of Lost Children, they push their own style to the current technological limits. Indulging in kooky comic-book shenanigans that makes Dick Tracy look downright lifeless, the madcap directors pulled out all the stops to create a modern-tale fairy tale on a par with Pinocchio. In fact, the frenetic energy created by the movie what Disney should have been trying to create for years instead of slapping out syrupy sing-along goo like Pocahontas...
...only be glad to see her emergence into the realm of the intelligible. Yet Fraser's voice has now lost its most striking asset, an "I'm either verging on a nervous breakdown or about to explode with joy" quality. Her singing on this EP is on a par with the pretty but insipid vocals of the Sundays' Harriet Wheeler -- without the cynical edge of humor that makes Wheeler palatable...