Word: poore
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...which airports you especially want to avoid: "There are six metropolitan areas that experienced worse-than-average delays for both arrivals and departures: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, Atlanta and San Francisco. And since all six metropolitan areas are domestic and international hubs, their poor on-time performance affects a large number of travelers ... The New York metropolitan area stands in its own category when it comes to poor on-time performance. New York generated both the worst arrival delay percentages (30.0%) and one of the worst departure delay percentages (21.7%). New York also ranked as the worst metropolitan area...
Galluccio has apologized for fleeing the scene, citing "poor judgement," and "panic." The State Senator has been convicted of drunk driving twice before and would not say whether Sunday's incident occurred as a result of drinking...
Eventually, the kids do the right thing, and both teams withdraw from the intraclub competition and confess to their drug usage. Unfortunately, poor Howard, Terri’s stooge and supplier, gets arrested on crystal meth suspicions, and Principal Figgins loses faith in Will and Terri, firing Terri and assigning Sue as glee's new co-chair. Delicious...
...exactly that kind of success that needs to be replicated in more schools and by more former soldiers, say observers. As the program stands, participants must teach in a high-need district - one with "a poverty rate of at least 20% or at least 10,000 poor children" - in order to receive the $5,000 cash assistance. And a $5,000 bonus is available to teachers who land in schools where "at least 50% of the students are from low-income families or the school has a large percentage of students who qualify for assistance under the Individuals with Disabilities...
...widespread turmoil and suffering it perpetrated. Then the time of gradual reform, which has brought greater prosperity and freedom than China has ever known but which is still characterized by grave corruption and terrible injustice under a stern authoritarianism. Today China is many things, often contradictory: rich and poor, open and closed, liberated and oppressed, confident and insecure. But it decidedly isn't Marxist - or even Maoist. (See pictures of modern Shanghai...