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Word: toneed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whether teacher testing should be required. It should. No more hollow promises that education will be job one. Let's face it: during the Weld/Cellucci administration, a focus on education was woefully absent. No more knee-jerk reactions to bad test scores. The governor needs to set the tone for an informed and reasoned debate about the best way to train and test our state's future teachers...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: An Open Letter to the Governor | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...audible in his vowels. "I also spent some time, although not much time, in a zero-degree freezer unit like the one Conrad works in in the novel." Did he actually witness firsthand a "workout" session such as the one Charlie endures at PlannersBanc? "No," he says in the tone of a reporter stymied. "I tried everything, promised to dress like a banker and keep quiet, but I never could get into one. Still, I have five sources for that scene, and I know I'm right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tom Wolfe: A Man In Full | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

Game one dictated the tone of the rest of the match. After losing the close first game, Harvard was dominated throughout the rest of the match...

Author: By David A. Roddenberry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Defrocked By Friars | 10/28/1998 | See Source »

George Soros was once the candy man for financial market high rollers; now he's looking to become Dr. Weil. The Financial Times reported Tuesday that Soros will close down his Quantum Emerging Market Growth fund and merge two other hedge funds in a move designed to change the tone of his Quantum group. "This is a sign that Soros plans to play it safe until the dust settles in the world economy," says TIME senior business reporter Bernard Baumohl. "He is consolidating his fund's investments under the control of Stanley Druckenmiller, who is a more cautious money manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soros Trims His Hedges | 10/27/1998 | See Source »

...consequence, even the anti-gay right has had to shift the tone of its message as more straight Americans become acquainted with their own gay friends and family. Anita Bryant, the singer turned anti-gay campaigner of the 1970s, said that what homosexuals really want is "the right to propose to our children." It says something about the difficulties of demonizing homosexuals these days when Senate majority leader Trent Lott merely compares them to kleptomaniacs, as he did this summer, or when Christian groups run ad campaigns insisting gays can be cured. While that language may try to throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Gay Struggle | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

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