Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...link between self-governance and student performance is clear at some schools, unclear at others. Yet this spotty record is unlikely to mar school- based management's bright future. In May Citibank gave $2.4 million to help nine Washington, D.C., schools get their plans under way. Dade County has taken the notion a step further, asking principals and teachers to submit ideas for creating 49 new schools from the ground up. Seven are now in the planning-and-building stage. More innovations are sure to come. School districts may find that giving teachers and parents the right to make decisions...
During the Venice controversy, De Michelis was unfairly criticized for everything from his size (a "bulging gut," as Britain's Independent put it) to his disco-dancing inclinations. On the bright side, however, all the publicity has not hurt sales of his annual guide to Italy's best discos...
...standard for the neighborhood: his mother died when he was five; his father, a first- generation gang member, has spent the past five years in prison; his older brother, 17, is also in the gang. What little care Ducc has received came from his grandmother. Ducc happens to be bright -- smart enough, in fact, to be discovered by the I Have a Dream Foundation, which selects gifted ghetto kids and pays their college tuition if they complete high school. Ducc, however, hasn't gone to class much since the fourth grade...
...public outcry when a TV personality is pushed toward unwilling retirement typically resembles a Roman candle on the Fourth of July: the blaze is bright but brief, the heat evanesces, and all that lingers is a fond memory in the mind's eye. That is how it has gone for even the biggest stars, from Red Skelton to Walter Cronkite. NBC doubtless imagined it would be no different when it undertook to freshen the Today show by easing veteran co- anchor Jane Pauley toward the sidelines. But in the eight months since Pauley announced she would resign from the show...
...years. This Billy Crystal kid is coming along. He's so clever. And Jonathan Winters. He lives right across the fence, over here. He is a funny man. Crazy funny. Don Rickles. I think he could be approaching genius because of his brain. He's just so fast and bright...