Word: constant
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Teachers complain that constant standardized testing kills classroom creativity by forcing them to teach for the tests alone. And education wonks see other problems with the Bush plan. If Gore throws money at the problem without demanding accountability, Bush demands accountability without throwing enough money. As Gore argued last week, Bush's proposed tax cut is so expensive--between $1.3 trillion and $2.1 trillion over 10 years, depending on whose analysis you believe--that it would exceed the projected surplus, leaving nothing for anything else. Blithely ignoring that problem, Bush proposes a five-year, $5.5 billion spending increase for education...
...around outside on a smoking break. And this idea: an animation of a celebrity's real dreams, accompanied by professional analysis. "I first looked into public-access television when I was doing Happy Days in the late '70s, and I didn't have time," he confesses. Now, without the constant pressure of figuring out how to deliver lines like "Sit on It," he has the time...
...growing programs. Founder Shawn Fanning, 19, wrote the original code for Napster while he was a freshman computer-science major at Boston's Northeastern University. An admittedly lousy guitar player, Fanning began writing the code so he could distribute his own six-string doodlings and squelch his roomie's constant whining about unreliable MP3 search engines. Back in the MP3 stone age--you know, eight months ago--too many links to too many tunes were outdated or invalid, frustrating many a prospective pirate...
...almost two years, Andrade has charmed his passengers with his friendly manner and constant willingness to talk...
...dialogue with the end of anti-abortion violence. While Baird was neither the most eloquent nor the most convincing speaker on the panel (that award was definitely earned by Planned Parenthood President Gloria A. Feldt) his point is fair. While abortion-providers and other abortion rights activists are under constant threat of violence and targets of intimidation, it will be near impossible for them to converse meaningfully with anti-abortionists...