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...mantra getting ready for this game was being tougher and guarding tougher,” Sullivan said...
...tried to improve its performance by strengthening its curriculum. But as a result, 21 of the 63 eighth-graders were unable to move on to ninth grade last year. Six of those youngsters chose to drop out rather than repeat the grade. Retention was a problem even before the tougher standards went into effect. Only 23 of the 40 students in the school's first entering class are still there. "SEED looks like a very innovative model, but it is too early to tell," says Nina Rees, a U.S. Department of Education official who studies charter schools. And SEED...
...have been working a lot on help defense—first of all, playing the ball tougher, and then if the person gets beat, playing the ball on rotation,” Cserny said. “[Against URI] either the help was late, or if the help was there, the rotation was late and they had easy shots...
...witness has already emerged: former chief financial officer Fausto Tonna, who has given prosecutors crucial details about the firm's labyrinthine accounting, but insists Tanzi was calling the shots. The scandal burst into the open in November, when Parmalat had trouble meeting a routine bond payment, prompting tougher scrutiny of its books by its own auditors and Italian regulators. In early December the Tanzis held talks with the U.S. buy-out firm Blackstone Group about a possible sale - and mentioned that Parmalat's published accounts didn't tell the whole story, according to the sec lawsuit...
...known as a tough cookie with even tougher pals. In 1992, a triad member who had slapped her was shot dead three days later. (No one was convicted of the crime, and Mui was not charged with complicity.) But she was famously generous, raising funds for a San Francisco nursing home and, last year, for the families of SARS victims...