Word: sized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech didn't linger much longer than it took to give it. But its vapors still wafted through the week as the Clintons and the Gores hit the road again to sweet, screaming, Election Day-size crowds. By the day after the speech, the Senate floor might as well have been on the ocean floor. The minister delivering the invocation at the rally in Buffalo on Wednesday extolled Clinton as "the greatest President for our people of all time." Hours later in Pennsylvania, Clinton was so jazzed by the rope line that he went back to the beginning and worked...
Worst of all, mandatory minimums have done little to solve the problems for which they were crafted. Casual drug use has declined since the 1970s, but the size of the addict population has remained stable. And even conservative criminologists concede that demographics (i.e., fewer young men) and better policing are more responsible for the dropping crime rate than criminals' fear of mandatory minimums. John DiIulio Jr., the Princeton professor who wrote a 1994 defense of mandatory sentencing for the Wall Street Journal with the charming headline LET 'EM ROT, now opposes mandatory minimums for drug crimes. He points out that...
...Golden Staters: Life in the Big Apple sure is different. They have rats the size of Volkswagens. Yesterday I choked one who disrespected me, and he choked me back. Playing for the Knicks rocks: as far as thugs go, I'm not even in the starting lineup. Gotta go--I'm meeting Spike for pregame nachos. XOXO, Latrell
...that matters is the audience size. Maybe you remember how silly AOL seemed sending out all those free disks for years and years. Now, according to the latest tally released yesterday afternoon, the dial-up king has 17 million customers. Key is the value of users, not at this point in the game for how much they'll give you but for how much some other web contender will pay to include your users in their "network." (Watch for Yahoo to start calling itself just that, now that GeoCities gives it a big property with a completely different brand...
...found that students who did an extra 30 min. of nightly math homework beginning in seventh grade would, by 11th grade, see their achievement level soar by the equivalent of two grades. Betts argues that the amount of homework is a better indicator of how students perform than the size of class or the quality of teachers. But his study was limited to students in junior high and high school. What about younger children? In 1989 University of Missouri psychology professor Harris Cooper reviewed more than 100 studies on homework and concluded that while benefits from homework can be measured...