Word: swarm
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...spawning a swarm of new complaints--and not just from grade-wary parents. Some educators argue that the program is pointless paper pushing. Worse, they insist, grades will turn off the very parents schools need to engage. "Should a single parent who works two jobs and doesn't have much time for school activities get her knuckles rapped?" asks Gary Natriello, a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College who has studied report cards of all kinds. "It will only make her more likely to hide at home...
...November 1997 An estimated 5,000 demonstrators swarm the Harvard Square area as Chinese President Jiang Zemin speaks in Sanders Theatre...
...dealing with a swarm of killer bees, don't attempt to outsmart them. If you leap into a nearby swamp to escape them, they'll be waiting for you when you come up for air. This time...
...showed people." She later admits "it was posted for a few minutes." Suspicious. Another floormate refutes Jane's claim: "It was posted for an hour or two before it was taken down." Other accounts confirm that the diagram found its way to a tackboard. The floormate even recalls a swarm of intrigued students huddled around it like squirrels over an acorn...
Quarterbacked by Steve Young VII in the east, our Mormon comrades will push the Chinese overlords so far downfield they'll be back across the North Pacific in no time. Meanwhile, the descendants of former Federal Express and United Parcel Service agents will swarm every zip code west of Omaha to deliver defeat to the dreaded USPS--overnight guaranteed...