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...Arabic, Tlingit and Yiddish, and works like a mix of Japanese, Turkish and Mohawk." There weren't a whole bunch of people speaking completely fluently, but there were four or five people who were amazingly fluent. Which is not easy. I met several people who had been trying to pass the certification exam for years. The language is like a puzzle. I guess it's no weirder than wanting to be really good at chess...
...beauty of what he created is that sense of optimism and diversity. It was refreshing to work on a film that had a bighearted approach to the future--to show a future you'd actually like to live in, as opposed to many films where you think, "I'll pass...
...students hired at the beginning of last year. Each semester in the course, 10 unit tests are given, with each test cycle lasting eight days. Each test grader is required to work two nights of the test cycle, during which they discuss answers with students and give a pass or incomplete grade. Depending on the number of students taking the test that night, the grading process could vary from being a one-on-one conversation between a grader and a student to a group session involving multiple students. The reduction seeks to increase accountability and alleviate “enormous?...
...liberal Californian, a longtime environmental leader, predicted passage by the end of next week. Virginia Democrat Rick Boucher, who represented coal country Democrats in talks with Waxman, concurred. It would be the first global warming bill to get that far in the House, which is expected to easily pass the measure that is a key part of President Obama's agenda. Legislation faces a bigger challenge in the Senate, where influential Democrats oppose...
...changes would be more heavy-handed. Those phone-payment fees would be prohibited outright (unless a customer asks for expedited service, a genuine additional cost which the card company would be allowed to pass along). It could also be substantially harder to market or sell credit cards to young people (those under either...