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...makes me a little uneasy that I may not behappy or that I may not end up where I wanted to"if there is a random element in the system, shesaid...
...struggle has roots in controlled choice itself, which threatens to take power from the entrenched School Department bureaucracy. Because the choice element means that schools must compete with each other to make themselves more attractive to students, Willie argues that "we have helped Boston move a considerable distance towards decentralizing its decision-making structure...
...common element in these cases and in shootings at a high school in Washington and a car dealership in Norfolk, Va., was more than the threat to innocent bystanders. All involved the use of semiautomatic weapons. These fast-firing, powerful guns, capable of sending a bullet through a concrete wall, were once rare outside the military. But when the U.S. normalized relations with China, imports of Chinese weapons as well as other goods became legal. Purchases of the AK-47 copy soared from a mere 4,000 a year as recently as 1985-86 to more than 40,000 last...
Flynn, who endorsed the tax plan in general terms, stopped short of supporting each element in the package, which would raise taxes on investments, gasoline, cigarettes, alcohol, interstate telephone calls and other areas...
...perestroika are baffled," says Marshall Shulman, professor emeritus of Russian studies at Columbia University. "They don't know how to proceed because they found the economic situation far worse than their worst expectations. They are searching for new ways, but without luck so far." Price reform, perhaps the key element in perestroika's ultimate success, has been postponed until at least...