Word: teste
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...think we're in reasonably good - or let me say a better position on North Korea than we've been for a while because the North Koreans' decision to test actually succeeded in rallying everybody in a very dramatic fashion. We were - I was on the telephone with the other five - the other four within hours of the North Korea testing and we were in the Security Council with a resolution by the end of the week. That's lightning speed. And the - what it really showed was the benefit of having worked this coalition over a period...
...liar, a loser and "King George." But with the slimmest possible majority (51 to 49) in a chamber where he needs at least nine Republicans to get anything difficult done--60 votes being what it takes to get past a filibuster and 67 to override a veto--the real test of Reid's leadership will be more about finesse. Republicans say they believe Reid when he says he wants to work with them, and in an initial show of good faith, he and minority leader Mitch McConnell co-sponsored the ethics and lobbying-reform legislation that is the Senate...
...life is barely recognizable from those days when he earned $10 a month on that offshore Soviet rig. Since joining the pipeline project in 2003, he has bought a car for himself and for his father, who worked in Soviet oil production for 30 years. But the real test of how Azerbaijan has changed will be the future of Mirza's daughter, who is now 10. "When all our oil is finished, say, in 50 years from now, there should be no problems for her." So until then, party on, Baku...
...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1.) flunking out; 2.) doing work; or 3.) working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
...time, the state of Kentucky ordered the university to improve its academic credentials, and a decade later that improvement has come at a high price, literally. Sure, hundreds of millions of dollars in research money have poured in and Louisville now welcomes an incoming student class with much higher test scores, but those fortunate enough to be accepted must pay a much steeper tuition; in just the last three years, the annual in-state undergraduate tuition has grown 40%, to $6,252 this academic year. "We have had to raise tuition each of the last four or five years," says...