Word: topness
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...TOP TAX-MANAGED FUNDS...
Pegasite intensity spikes at college-application time. The Zagers' dining room has been turned into a college war room, draped from top to bottom with brochures from schools like Syracuse University and the University of Colorado at Boulder and a poster-size chart drawn by Anne that lists 14 schools broken down into 22 categories such as class size and distance from home. Nearby sits a CD-ROM SAT study aid, Emergency Prep...
...rally is over, and about 90 of Webster's teachers and administrators are in the library talking about two of the school's top priorities: keeping students in school--and keeping them alive. The "girl with a gun" scenario is part of an exercise in crisis management--and is based on an incident that happened at the school five years ago. Teachers split into groups of nine to draft a response to various emergencies...
...other preoccupation, keeping students in school, the teachers know how much pressure the administration is under. Last year Webster Groves received $150,000 in extra funds from Missouri's A-Plus program, whose top goal is to reduce the dropout rate. Webster's rate has declined from 3.9% to 1.3% over the past five years, but needs to stay down to keep the state funds flowing. So the school has compiled a list of 150 students considered highly "at risk" of quitting, and is targeting them for extra attention. Everyone agrees that this effort is admirable--and necessary, given...
...Newton told top Air Force officials that the T-3 fixes wouldn't be completed for up to two years, and the brass ordered the program scrapped. "For me, obviously, it's too late," said LINDA FISCHER, whose son Dan died in the first T-3 accident. "But it's good to know that no one else at the academy will suffer because of that plane...