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For all its moral appeal, however, the Kansas City plan's achievements appear modest when weighed against its enormous expense. The number of out-of-district white children enrolled at the magnet schools peaked at 1,476 last year. Standardized test scores have registered slight gains. White flight, while substantially...
It may be, of course, that Alfie was looking glum because, breakfast traditionally being the only edible meal in England, he knew his day had already peaked well before 9 in the morning. But he was probably thinking of those pigeons. The English are known for having almost unlimited sympathy...
His wife Lisa coped as best she could. In a New Yorker article by Peter Boyer, she recounts how she'd finally completed the move from Little Rock to Washington just as the travel-office controversy peaked, and Vince greeted her with the news that he thought he should resign...
But others say the department peaked in 1990 and is now returning to a more normal number of concentrators.
The new system will "get the consumer excited about photography again," predicts analyst Eugene G. Glazer. That's the hope in a photo business that has faded since the boom in autofocus 35-mm cameras peaked in 1992. And if it flops? Look for the remnants at 21st century flea...