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...average school district spends per pupil per year--the U.S. average is $6,500--and not only providing a superior education but also squeezing out a profit. That's a tough task in a field in which "the margins are more like McDonald's than Microsoft's," as Thomas Toch, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School for Profit | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...doubles action, William & Mary's top seeded duo of Carolijin Buis and Delphine Toch captured the doubles crown...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Tennis' Jerath Falls in Semis | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

Such dealings with government taught Perot something else: When you want to get something done, hire a high-priced lobbyist. Preferably one who held a high government office. Indeed, that was how Perot pushed his school reform package through the Texas legislature. According to Thomas Toch's In the Name of Excellence, Perot brought in one of the state's most powerful lawyers, along with three of the most expensive lobbyists in Austin, known around the capital as "the $100,000 boys." Two of them were former assistants to the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives...

Author: By Jason M. Solomon, | Title: Voting for the Insiders' Outsider | 6/2/1992 | See Source »

...trusting--if someone says they never made the statement, then obviously they did not make it. Philip Sheridan, for instance, is often credited with having said, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian." The quote stems from an account of the meeting between Sheridan and Commanche leader Toch-a-way. Sheridan denied having made the statement, but who would not--after the fact...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Bartlett's Book of Misquotations | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

...thefts toch place between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., according to Charian Colace, manager of the Paculty Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Club Thefts | 5/6/1983 | See Source »

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