Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult to understand why bilingual programs produce better results; they enable the children in them to start learning the sorts of things they are supposed to be learning in school from their first day in school, such as to add and subtract, to read and understand stories and to write...
...first, says Cooperson, it seemed almost inconceivable that people could read a language like Arabic which looked "like gibberish. I thought it was a plot to sell language textbooks. I thought that if you shook them awake in the middle of the night they'd speak English...
These graduate students are often inexperienced and frequently so busy that they read weekly assignments hastily, sometimes just hours before their classes. And when undergraduates must constantly adapt their thinking and writing to suit the moods of graduate students, as well as their varying "styles," the younger students can hardly become enthusiastic about such a life themselves...
Printer quality refers to the quality of the characters on the page; the better the quality, the more readable the letters. Cheap printers use a small set of dots to make up each letter. The so-called dot matrix letters are more difficult to read than a typewriter's characters...
...Chief of Staff Fidel Ramos would stand in the event of a showdown between President Corazon Aquino and her restive Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile. While most observers have put the general in Aquino's camp, his support of some of Enrile's positions has made him difficult to read. Last week, confronted by reports that members of the military were planning a coup, Ramos sternly warned "military adventurists" that such action could be "bloody and destabilizing." Declared the general, in his clearest show of support yet for Aquino's fragile government: "It's vital that we safeguard and enhance...