Word: lengthening
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...didn’t get into a rhythm like we normally do,” Douglas said. “We went out a bit too high on the stroke rate, so we had to lengthen our stroke a bit in the repechage...
...entirely. No worldwide mandate could restrain the cheers of spectators. Yet we must allow ourselves to be swept away by something, or we shackle ourselves to the degrees of separation between pure enjoyment and irony. Anyone who feels even a modicum of outrage should make a personal commitment to lengthen our cultural attention span and let powerful performances speak for themselves. For there is an important difference between choosing how you want to experience an event and preventing yourself from experiencing it at all. Every now and then, a willing suspension of disbelief is, like chicken soup, good...
...White House's new approach amounts to Extreme Makeover: School Edition. Fire the teachers and principals, turn schools into charters, lengthen the day and year, or shut the schools down completely and send the kids elsewhere. These so-called turnaround strategies - which aim to increase test scores, decrease dropout rates and improve classroom culture in short order - are perhaps the most ambitious part of President Obama's education-reform agenda. But it's a high-risk intervention. "This is like telling doctors to pick patients with the most advanced forms of cancer and make them better," says Jack Jennings, president...