Word: sheering
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...University of California system has been an influential force in recent changes to standardized testing, thanks to its sheer scope—10 campuses and nearly 220,000 students...
...seated cultural and economic causes at work here. It is then unsurprising that more than a quarter of the population of Springfield is Hispanic—twice the state average. Lawrence, another host to this increase, features more than double even that. Whether conservative and often Catholic tradition or sheer economic reality can be cited for this peculiarity, we can only speculate about causes for so long. The State House instead must prepare itself to contend with this multigenerational, multifarious problem. Family support services must be extended to these new mothers who might otherwise be taking the MCAS?...
...achieve that moment where you reach the last word and it feels as though you’ve been led to the one and only place where it can end. One doesn’t trump the other, but a novel can’t do that by the sheer nature of its length.13.FM: Word on the street is that you’re writing a novel. What’s going on with that?BJ: It’s due next February, and I’m three-quarters done with it. I’m excited...
...would go to hookah bars in the afternoons out of sheer boredom, he said, even though there was always the risk that whichever bar he had chosen would be bombed...
Obama's speech was profound, one of the most remarkable by a major public figure in decades. One question - perhaps the question -is whether its sheer audacity makes for good political strategy. By confronting the Wright controversy head-on, Obama ensured that it would drive the narrative about his campaign, and his race against Hillary Clinton, for days and perhaps weeks to come. He and his advisers no doubt calculated that nothing they could do would change that fact. But if one of the appeals of Obama's candidacy has been the promise of a post-racial politics, how will...