Word: admonish
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...American Medical Association for teachers, one that would assure the teaching credentials of its members or insist on better training. Shirking resemblance to a professional association, the NEA follows the union model forwarded by industrial labor. And for those who never expected Jimmy Hoffa to admonish unionists for lacking pride in the quality of their products, it’s pure fantasy to expect the NEA to pay more attention to the quality of students’ education than teachers’ salaries and benefits packages...
...conductor at the podium, Gelmetti, 58, is a master at eliciting strong emotions - from his musicians, who he'll admonish to play al dente when he wants short, crisp notes. And from his fans, who adore this mini-Pavarotti with an almost pantomime performance style. "Some people think that he milks it a bit, but he's got this great warmth as soon as he steps on stage," says former SSO artistic administrator Tim Calnin, who helped bring Gelmetti to Australia for the first time in 1993. "He waves and smiles at the audience like he's greeting friends...
...speech, the President unveiled millions of dollars to randomly test high school kids for drug use. He is doubling the federal money currently spent to admonish teens to practice sexual abstinence. He is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on antidrug propaganda and sending federal agents to bust pot clubs for those using medical marijuana to ease the pain of crippling diseases. Republican Senators are even trying to withhold federal funding from states that allow medical-marijuana ads on public transport. These are not unrelated measures. The President is proud of his Big Government moralism...
...vividly remember my father's letter to me in 1968 when I had turned myself in for smoking at my boarding school. He praised my honesty while not shirking his parental duty to admonish the crime. A group of us had been huddled in a closet smoking cigarettes. I had actually just exited the closet when the teacher came and busted everyone else. I'd got away with it, but my classmates' glaring looks shamed me into confessing my sin. Of course, I didn't tell my father those details. I made myself out to be a budding George Washington...
DIED. SUE SALLY HALE, 65, trailblazer for women in the clannish sport of polo; of apparently natural causes; at her polo ranch in the Coachella Valley, Calif. Beginning in the early 1950s, when women were still barred, Hale competed as "A. Jones," a mustachioed man. "Gentlemen," she liked to admonish her male-chauvinist opponents, "better boys than you have tried." Bowing in part to pressure from Hale and her friends, who vowed to publicize the fact that she had been duping them for years, the U.S. Polo Association admitted women...