Word: weren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There were a lot of people who weren't from the Ed School," she said...
...questions weren't anything new," Hing said. "I'm sure he had the answers ready."A-8JIANGCrimsonWilliam B. DecherdPOLICY ADDRESS: Harvard President NEIL L. RUDENSTINE cranes to listen to an audience members as President JIANG ZEMIN answers a question...
...blamed Mir's woes on "the human factor"), has hit the ground fighting. "They can convict me," he says, "but what'll they do when the next crisis comes?" Though the new crew on Mir has been beset by their own troubles, Tsibliyev won't gloat. "If the crew weren't prepared, they'd be on the ground. No one gets a free ride into the cosmos...
...daft wit even turned his affliction into a Mary Poppins-style ditty: "Supermasochistic Bob has cystic fibrosis/ He should've died when he was young, but he was too precocious.../ A lifetime of infection and his lungs all filled with phlegm/ The CS would have killed him if it weren't for S&M/ Hum-diddle-iddle-iddle I'm gonna...
...ACTs is part of an effort to find ways of comparing students and schools from all over the country. That most of these efforts aren't explicitly run by the federal Department of Education should not obscure their nationalizing effect. Few high schools would dare proclaim that they weren't going to prepare their students for the SATs. But American education is still quite local in one crucial way: individual schools have the freedom to be bad. There is no reliable way today to ensure that every American public school student is getting a decent education, and, indeed, many...