Word: towards
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...minority children. It is this cycle of complacency that I want to escape; wherever I live next year I hope that it has the type of black musical presence that is both engaging to my ears and that can begin an inter-racial dialogue, the first step toward solving the problems of our urban centers...
...ostensibly about substituting the euro for 11 national currencies and transferring responsibility for monetary policy from individual national central banks to a new European Central Bank, but the EMU's real importance is political. The advocates of the EMU see it as an important step toward creating a strong political union. The idea of a United States of Europe was conceived at the end of World War II by politicians who believed that abolishing national governments would prevent a repetition of the major wars that had engulfed Europe during the previous 75 years...
Although this argument seems far less persuasive after 50 years of European peace, the single currency is applauded by European federalists as an important step toward a federal government. Since there is no major country in the world that does not have its own currency, abolishing national currencies is a major move toward abolishing European national states. When Spaniards and Italians have euros in their pockets instead of pesetas or lire, they are bound to feel more like "Europeans...
...increasingly torn. Just how involved should they be? Should they help a son or daughter finish that geography assignment, or stay aloof and risk having a frustrated, sleep-deprived child? Should they complain to teachers about the heavy workload or be thankful that their kids are being pushed toward higher achievement? Battles over homework have become so intense that some school districts have decided to formally prescribe the amount of homework kids at each grade level should receive. All of which leaves open the questions of just how much and what kind of homework is best. Though there's evidence...
...lost out again. So it upped the ante once more. Past officials of Salt Lake's 2002 bid committee now admit that the munificence extended toward I.O.C. members in the form of contributions, scholarships and health care was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Furthermore, the Salt Lake Tribune reported that the committee spent nearly $10,000 on six shotguns and rifles that went to Olympic officials, including Samaranch. (The president said it's O.K., because he doesn't vote for the host city. But even his deputy, I.O.C. vice president Dick Pound, has said Samaranch possesses "the loudest nonvote...