Word: scratching
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Clark has precisely the necessary qualities to serve as dean. As an academic, rather than a professional administrator, he knows what the school needs to improve its declining ratings. He has overseen significant changes to the school's curriculum. The staff's recommendation to scratch the Leadership and Learning initiative for more sweeping changes without giving it time to work is simply ridiculous...
...challenge to reinvent the magazine's electronic editions, which appear each week on Pathfinder, Time Warner's site on the Internet http://www.pathfinder.com/time) and on America Online. Seven months ago, she and designer Ron Plyman threw out everything they knew about designing for print and started from scratch, trying to create a newsmagazine tailored to the online medium...
...scratch most of the postcommunist world too, where the advent of market economies has been a decidedly mixed blessing for women. Female unemployment is up, female-supportive services like public child care are getting as scarce as public portraits of Stalin. In Poland women have lost their right to abortion. In Russia it's a fact of postcommunist economic life that an office job can include a responsibility to sleep with the boss...
Carney is an "Etch-A-Sketch" politician. He begins every campaign from scratch and views each as a personal test to do the job better than it was done before. Consider just some of the New Hampshire moves Carney is helping oversee, work Dole's rivals can only envy...
...monumental disarray. But the U.S. is not rich enough or powerful enough to undertake major international actions without allies. The U.N. can be useful in marshaling them, as was evident during the Gulf War, which the U.N. authorized. Without it, the U.S. would have more trouble assembling coalitions from scratch in each crisis, or it might have to invent a new international organization (this may become necessary anyway). But the notion that U.S. decisions are subject to the U.N. is a somewhat paranoid fallacy, fed by the Clinton Administration's vacillations and its rhetoric about multilateralism...