Word: explained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
These issues extend into the schools. Argaw often has to call teachers and explain when a parent refuses to sign a report card. It is not that the parent is being uncooperative, Argaw says, it is just that she is embarrassed because she does not know how to write her own name...
...used to be that if you wanted it enough, you could find some sort of job," Jeune says. "Now, you need a basic knowledge of the language because people won't take the time to explain things to you. Now, you need a certificate even to clean a nursing home...
Understanding these flaws helps explain why Harvard students won't be sailing to Oxford come September. The reason is not that Harvard didn't field good candidates. Those endorsed are among the best of the best. It's that Harvard didn't field all the candidates it could have...
...This is an opportunity for Restraint. Explain why you fought, not why you should have won it. Why it's over now, why your supporters should call Bush their president, and why the country must call it an election and move on. Add a little humanity, a few flags and plenty of honey, and America will gush gratitude, at least until you're gone...
...Another concern for Rehnquist et al. is the time. Sure it's late. And no wonder the Florida Supreme Court still hasn't bothered to explain to SCOTUS its first crack at this thing - it was a sloppy activist compromise that only served to waste three weeks of national time. The high court of which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sounded so enamored Monday could have done the legally simpler thing on Nov. 17: Allow Katherine Harris her first certification and allow Gore his de novo contest on Nov. 18. And give Florida's 67 canvassing boards three weeks instead...