Word: system
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...little we know is clear enough: HIV, a virus transmitted by bodily fluids, is contracted most often through unprotected sexual contact. It lies dormant within the body for anywhere from six months to, in a few cases, decades, and then appears to destroy the immune system. Drug treatment can delay the effects, but in the end, HIV weakens the immune system to the point where an opportunistic infection, something the body normally could fight easily, runs uncontrolled and causes death...
Daycare expenses aren't the only factor proving troublesome for prospective parents. The lack of stability in Harvard¹s tenure system "absolutely" turns away women looking to start families, Goodman says...
David M. DeBartolo's article about the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System ("Test Scores Should Not Deny Diplomas," Opinion, Nov. 30) certainly shows that he has a better grasp of the issues surrounding MCAS than most, but his proposal to lower the stakes of the test goes against the fundamental reasons for the test's existence...
...giving students who pass the MCAS an "honors diploma" sounds an awful lot like the grade inflation that Alejandro Jenkins talked about in his column ("A Fool's Complaint," Opinion, Dec. 1). Under this system the MCAS would quickly fade into the background along with all of the other standardized tests that high school students take...
...Achilles' heel: Bush will be left open to criticism because he couldn't find room for a capital gains tax cut. "Steve Forbes will attack it as a half-measure, as a tweaking of the system, not an overhaul," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney. But the bigger problems could come in a general election. Recent polls show that voters are more concerned with further reducing the national debt and shoring up Medicare and education than with tax cuts. So while wooing much of his own party, Bush could alienate many of the "Reagan Democrats" who are less concerned with...