Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because of Bell's expertise in outdoor education, the committee felt he would adeptly oversee every aspect of this leadership training, where young backpackers released into the woods for 10 days learn to read maps, perform CPR on trail beds and emerge as the new generation of rugged FOP leaders...
...waiters and store clerks--Sherri has never cracked her positive attitude. She never loses hope that others will soon see her as a genuine and funny person to befriend instead of a disabled nuisance to pity or even worse, to ignore. Sherri has taught me that the most beautiful aspect of friendship is connecting with each friend on a personal level, seeking out the one thing that really sets your friendship awhirl...
...excelled in school and reached the "proficient" or "advanced" level on the exam would be recognized for their achievements, while students who completed all high school requirements and passed their courses but not the test would receive an ordinary diploma. This policy would take advantage of the best aspect of the test, its ability to identify the most effective parts of the educational system, while avoiding the travesty of denying diplomas to a massive segment of the student population. In other words, the test would keep high standards while slightly lowering the stakes...
...taking turns with her. "Too many people, too few things," Lurie thinks afterward. "What there is must go into circulation ... Not human evil, just a vast circulatory system, to whose workings pity and terror are irrelevant. That is how one must see life in this country: in its schematic aspect. Otherwise one could...
...social message that they want the world to know about, and so they plan an attack on their school. Where would they get this idea? From video games? Movies? I believe they were inspired by the media's coverage of the Columbine incident and other school shootings, where every aspect of the murderers' lives is reported on TV and in the press, making them heroes to troubled teens. The media should devote more space to teens who are doing good things instead of paying attention to those who do something unimaginably horrible. JOHN SHIPLEY Dunkirk...