Word: sylvan
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...none of the verbal jambalaya he's known for on the stump. His accent has no thickener the way it might if he were trying to give the Disney version of the tour. And he doesn't go the other way either, trotting out 10[cent]words like sylvan or making wide detours to talk about Teddy Roosevelt. His voice is easy. Meanwhile, the recount continues...
...Baltimore, Md.: Sylvan Learning offers pet health insurance ($16 a month...
...Pentheus a cool, James Woodsy arrogance that is quite fresh. His rapport with Brown is excellent. But though he's always smouldering, there are moments where his even-voiced, no-eye-contact persona seem better suited to an O'Neill soliloquy than to Euripides. He seems appropriately bewildered in sylvan drag...
Last November, ACT Inc. filed a federal lawsuit against Sylvan Learning Systems for making a deal with the Chauncy Group, a for-profit subsidiary of the non-profit ETS. Sylvan Learning Systems and the Chauncy Group had made a deal so that they could offer students the computer-based GRE (ETS otherwise lacks the computers to offer the test nationwide...
...problem with the deal was that Sylvan Learning Systems now had unfair control over educational testing by making a deal with a non-profit. Furthermore, other critics point out that ETS still maintains status as a nonprofit while making revenues of $411 million a year. So that's where our test-taking fees end up. But what few people have focused on, and what is most astounding, is that ETS has started to market its own test preparation guides. They even use the slogan-would you believe this?!- "we prepare the tests, let us help prepare you." And although...