Word: lengthening
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After President Obama’s speech last week, outrage likely erupted in schoolyards from coast to coast. His address proposed that America lengthen its school day and year, for two reasons: to ensure that students remain in a safe, stimulating environment when parents cannot provide one at home; and to increase America’s academic competitiveness on a global scale. While this first justification reflects a dire need across lower-income communities, the second unfairly frames education in terms of test scores instead of well-rounded mental development. America would do well to lengthen school days and shorten...
...Nasuk is definitely going to be on my panel, along with me, Abdul, Donald Trump and, because of the aesthetic plastic-surgery decisions, Tyra Banks. And while our triage will shorten some lives, we'll lengthen and improve many more. But if Americans would rather take a phony moral high ground instead of admitting that there are a limited number of organs, specialists, equipment, medicine and money, then I'll have to live with not being a panelist. And to make myself feel better, I'm going to use my health insurance to see an acupuncturist, a chiropractor, a psychologist...
...Currently, barring any criminal record, most who settle in the U.K. can apply for citizenship after about five years. The new probationary-citizen plan would lengthen an immigrant's total wait to an estimated six to 10 years, according to the Home Office. (The wait for those immigrating on the basis of family ties would jump from two years to between three and seven...
...primary, regardless of party, would face each other in the general election. Proponents believe it would loosen the grip of partisan ideologies and make it easier of moderates to win elections. In addition, a redistricting reform won narrow approval last November and proponents of good government keep trying to lengthen the state's term limits on legislators...
...There is a second difficulty in making the case for trade during downturns. Trade is a global phenomenon; politics is national. When unemployment lines lengthen, politicians understandably feel that they have to respond to the immediate needs of their constituents, not those (to adapt an infamous phrase of Neville Chamberlain's) in a faraway country of which they know little...