Word: difference
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...changed genders with little fuss--including a performing-arts teacher at Red Bluff High School, 150 miles northwest of Sacramento, who became a woman. In June the school board seemed to accept Rivers' decision, noting in a letter to parents that "although some board members hold personal values that differ from those of this individual," the job of a tenured teacher with good performance evaluations is protected by antidiscrimination laws. But school policy requires parental waivers before children can take sex education or even watch R-rated films. And board president Scott Rodowick says Rivers was instructed that if students...
...when I talk about unity I am not talking about conformity. This is crucial. A team consists of individuals that differ in interests, talents, and tastes. God knows we don't want 41 Tim Martins to be a team, it would simply be unbearable...
Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) beg to differ. They, and other performance groups, will face a serious space crunch when Radcliffe stops sponsoring student shows in Agassiz Theater...
Indeed, Bradley and Gore have a lot to talk about. The two compiled a remarkably similar voting record in the Senate, and seem to differ on few substantial policy issues. But they stress very different sets of priorities. Bradley has emphasized a commitment to enact campaign finance reform, fight child poverty and improve race relations. Gore's campaign touts the vice president's plans for improving the education and health care systems...
...pressure groups, yet realistic enough for corporations to find them affordable and achievable. Moreover, the canons are proliferating, and will soon begin to clash with one another. The European Federation of Accountants and Auditors in Brussels, for example, is drafting a set of environmental standards that are likely to differ from those of CERES. "We need a unified, comparable system, because it's not helpful if there are 25 different standards" in competition with one another, says Sir Geoffrey Chandler, head of the business-practices observance group of Amnesty International...