Word: uses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With MCAS to come and room for improvement still remaining, educators emphasized that they don't use standardized tests as the sole measure of the health of a school system...
...from overseas customers, which means that Scholastic, the U.S. publisher, is losing untold sales to British publisher Bloomsbury--an increasingly sticky issue of territorial rights raised by the borderless Internet. For now, Scholastic is bowing to copyright laws that permit the export of one copy per customer "for personal use." Says Arthur Levine, the series' U.S. editor: "It's not an issue I even want to talk about." In the future, though, he'll be taking no chances: the fourth Harry Potter will be released simultaneously in Britain and America next year...
...plenty of oohs and ahhs. They're gorgeous! Then I played tourist for a weekend, snapping flowers and the New York City skyline and taking more preening self-portraits than I'd like to admit. But I soon discovered that while all the cameras were easy to use, had similar features and cost about $250 apiece, each was flawed...
...they do. Troops also are taught how to dine on snakes ("Use care when skinning"), turtles ("can be boiled or roasted") and chicken ("kill a fowl either by cutting its head off or by placing its head under a strong stick, placing both your feet on either end of the stick while grasping the bird's body...and pulling vigorously until its head is pulled off"). Bon appetit...
...China and the U.S. closer together again by giving them something to agree on," says TIME correspondent Barry Hillenbrand. "It gave Washington an opportunity to show Beijing that the U.S. is not out to get them." That?s bad news for President Lee, of course, who had hoped to use the post-Kosovo rift to drive a wedge between Washington and Beijing. But that appears to have been a miscalculation. "The U.S. is committed to defending Taiwan from any attack," says Hillenbrand, "but the last thing it wants to do is go to war with China...