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...admit a small number in the first round so that there will still be a pool of acceptable candidates in the future. The fear is that future expansion won't be considered if all the countries that can meet NATO's membership requirements right now are admitted, meaning poorer countries like Slovakia will never be admitted. "We must pledge that the first new members will not be the last and that no European democracy will be excluded because of where it sits on the map," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told the foreign ministers...
...soon as I heard the result), urging, as you do, that he reconsider the case. I have also advised Dean Jeremy Knowles about my serious concern. I hope your argument will prevail with President Rudenstine, since I too think the university--and our students--will be much the poorer without Bonnie Honig's presence on our faculty...
...study cited by Colborn, researchers found that by the age of four, children whose mothers consumed two to three servings of fish from Lake Michigan each month had poorer short-term memory, lower cognitive processing speed, auditory and verbal deficits and quantitative memory deficits...
...government and shook up the armed forces. Last week he declared a state of emergency and then had his rubber-stamp Parliament re-elect him President. Protesters reacted by switching their targets from the Ponzi schemes to the one-man rule of Berisha. Simmering economic differences between the poorer north and the south boiled over, and several southern towns exploded into insurrection--or anarchy...
Penn said that certain demographic groups tend to score lower because "the test reflects the kinds of opportunities people have." He said good predictors of a student's SAT score include such variables as parents' educational background, family income and geographic location. Poorer students and students from rural and inner-city backgrounds tend to score worse, he noted...