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...also called their "values-driven leadership" campaign plank "vague and worrisome...
...days after the disaster, the man known as A.P. broke ranks with his fellow bankers, many of whom wanted area banks to remain shut to sort out the damage. Giannini quickly set up shop on the docks near San Francisco's North Beach. With a wooden plank straddling two barrels for a desk, he began to extend credit "on a face and a signature" to small businesses and individuals in need of money to rebuild their lives. His actions spurred the city's redevelopment...
...nation. Moss points out, "Teaching is in a state of quasi-professionalism. Teachers are technically professionals with professional training, but they are not making professional salaries or earning professional respect." One of the best ways to change the attitudes of politicians who use teacher bashing as the main plank of their campaign platforms or of those who view teachers as unskilled laborers covered in chalk dust is to get into the classroom and improve the education of our nation's children. Harvard would do well to promote the UTEP program more aggressively and use the Office of Career Services...
Nothing unusual until the gang plank stretched across the water and out stepped a black prisoner of the elite, white regime, a prisoner whose name would become synonymous with the struggle for equality and dignity for blacks and whites in South Africa...
...flight of stairs. Starr subpoenaed the agents on Tuesday, just a week after a three-judge federal appeals panel upheld a lower-court ruling that rejected the protective-privilege claim. By early Thursday morning, Cockell and six officers were at the courthouse in Washington, ready to walk the plank into Starr's grand-jury room. So great was the attention on them that Tripp was able to enter the court in relative peace for her sixth day of testimony...