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...fear the calendar torture persists largely because administrators are able to withstand complaints long enough for each crop of students to graduate... February...
...good story like Ms. Carrier. But as the prosecutors concluded, "while it would be convenient and perhaps publicly soothing to blame Lennar for the destruction wrought by Hurricane Andrew at the properties investigated, it would not be fair or accurate." Not even Homestead Air Force Base could withstand the record 120-mile-an-hour winds of the unprecedented hurricane, and Florida Power and Light's concrete utility poles, built to resist 165-mile-an-hour winds, snapped like toothpicks...
...experience of hundreds of families in southern Florida contradicts the image Miller projects. They have accused Lennar Corporation, which he founded and now chairs, of building substandard homes too weak to withstand the battering of Hurricane Andrew...
Miller and other Lennar officials argued inthis case as well that their houses werestructurally sound and built to code. HurricaneAndrew, they said, was simply too powerful formost buildings to withstand...
...pride is bad, then one doesn't dare seem proud of being good. Both Bill and Hillary came to Washington promising an end to politics as usual, a rebirth of responsibility, a Politics of Meaning derived from the Golden Rule. Such a specific claim to moral authority can hardly withstand charges of tax chiseling and corner cutting by Hillary and those closest to her. "Can a President credibly advance an ethic of national service," asked Clinton's nemesis on the Hill, Congressman Jim Leach, "if his own model is one of self-service...