Word: approaching
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...push teachers out of the way. New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato is the exception to the rule: while his campaign for re-election this November has embraced traditional Democratic causes as varied as the environment and health-care reform, he's nonetheless stuck to the Dole approach on education. He ripped teachers' unions early this year for "protecting the perks and privileges of their members" and called for replacing tenure with renewable five-year contracts...
...even as Spiegel has jumped into the electronic world, other giant retailers have not. Sears, for instance, is taking a more cautious approach. Though it put a catalog of Craftsman tools online last fall, it isn't rushing to build a webstore. "We think it has to be a profitable channel for plans to add any new merchandise for sale," says Paula Davis, a spokesperson for the retailer. But is Sears missing an opportunity? It has already missed Lisa Fontes, a 36-year-old Massachusetts psychologist who went to sears.com last month hoping to buy a freezer. The Sears site...
Sony's FunMail seemed like a better approach. The PCI card would improve the video quality and speed the download time. Imagining how thrilled my wife would be when she got video mail of me singing Seltzer Boy, I opened up the PC and got the card in with minimal fuss...
Assistant Director for Sports Information JohnP. Veneziano credits Parker's success to hisholistic approach to coaching...
...Another approach is Disney's Internet Guide, a preselected list of family-safe websites similar to Yahoo's Yahooligans. Since the pool of acceptable sites is limited, surfing here is a bit like going to the children's library. It also suffers from weird glitches. In testing, every time I typed in a potentially objectionable word, it retrieved a transcript of a (tame) interview between two of my favorite writers, Martin Amis and Will Self. That's a bug I could live with...