Word: concern
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...different philosophies - have come up with thoughtful, detailed plans to tackle our most pressing educational challenges: schools that repeatedly fail, the opportunity for more early-childhood learning, the shortage of qualified teachers, the high cost of college tuition. And voters in 18 states will decide on ballot initiatives that concern such issues as vouchers and bilingual teaching. Gore is right when he says, "Education is on the ballot this November...
...once you leave the top tier of schools, things change. Applicants are accepted based solely on their athletic prowess. Money also becomes a concern: schools stand to make a lot of dough from tournament appearances and general success on the field. Coaches and scouts wait anxiously by the phone, praying that the objects of their lust meet the NCAA's requirements for eligibility...
...There are questions of broader social concern, as well. What impact does the sports-based opportunity for higher education have on impressionable youth as they learn to prioritize? How about the overwhelming differences between the mostly poor, minority athletes and the Kates, Katies and Caitlins who battle on Jordan and Ohiri Fields? To what extent should race enter the equation...
...shoppers yesterday afternoon, the supply-side considerations of the pumpkin industry were a distant concern. More pressing matters included minimum feasible stem length and scary-face-conducive curvature...
...doctors working to raise awareness about child malnutrition in the American South in the late 1960s, Coles had the chance to work with and observe Kennedy, the senator from New York, Robert F. Kennedy '48. What impressed Coles so much about Kennedy was not just his genuine interest and concern for the issue, but his determination to be both politically pragmatic and morally just. There are also chapters covering a wide variety of efforts and lives of moral leadership. We get an interview-essay chapter on Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, but we also hear the story...