Word: showings
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...think any one paper would look like this on a given day," he says. "We're just saying that other publications could take some of these features and sprinkle them into the mix." To him, Panorama works best when thought of as a "concept car at an auto show" - something that's sleek and beautiful but wholly unnecessary for someone who just wants to drive to the grocery store...
...background or learning ability. Early tracking of students in China ensures that only the best and brightest can receive college-prep education; others are put into vocational schools or the workforce. If I taught only students who had parental support and spent hours on homework, I certainly could show higher test scores. But I believe that anyone can achieve his dream. The surly teen may mature and realize he needs an education to get the job he loves; the struggling kid may be able to get to college with better study habits. Please don't insult American teachers in this...
...background or learning ability. Early tracking of students in China ensures that only the best and brightest can receive college-prep education; others are put into vocational schools or the workforce. If I taught only students who had parental support and spent hours on homework, I certainly could show higher test scores. But I believe that anyone can achieve his dream. The surly teen may mature and realize he needs an education to get the job he loves; the struggling kid may be able to get to college with better study habits. Please don't insult American teachers in this...
...This should be the year that made clear the distinction between the publicity-hungry, irremediably ego-needy actual denizens of show business (like myself) and the way more grotesquely hungry and ego-needy residents of the show-business underworld known charitably as 'reality TV' ... It was obvious something was adrift, or ajar, when the phrase 'reality-TV star' began to be written and uttered with no trace of irony." --11/27/09...
...hearing talk from Democrats in Congress about the need for another new jobs program to ease our pain. With unemployment standing at an agonizing 10.2%, there is palpable fear among Democrats that they have little to show for nearly a year in office. But as the 2010 election season opens, they--and the President--would do well to entertain a different fear: looking as if they're doing too much...