Word: fails
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...Board has also considered changing the format of the re-tests that students will be allowed to take if they fail the tenth-grade test the first time. Some have argued that more students might pass if the more difficult questions were removed and the passing score increased. This contorted plan would solve nothing. It is difficult to see how an easier test with more difficult grading would give students a fairer shot at graduation...
...woman wants to have an abortion. It is a physically and emotionally painful procedure, but sometimes it is the only means to retain control of one's life and future. Certainly, it is not a decision taken lightly. When birth-control methods fail, it's the woman who pays, the woman who carries the child, delivers it and rears it--sometimes without financial support from the father and on a lower salary than a man would earn. You would have to be blind not to see that an unwanted pregnancy can be devastating to a woman's future. LEYLAND RYAN...
...didn't spend a dime on K-12 education. Even now, Washington provides only about 7 percent of public school spending. Yet this year Bush and Gore - while rooted in 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...
...Nothing is more painful for a child than losing a parent; but watching one fail is in its own way a kind of death. Both Bush and Gore watched the fathers they revered go down in flames in front of their eyes. The sons tried to save them but couldn't, so they both were left to decide whether to try to avenge them. Gore's father lost in part because his principled stands on Vietnam and civil rights were out of step with those of his constituents; Bush Sr. lost after voters read his lips and still...
...Texas governor, when he and the Democrats in the legislature had cut deals on welfare and juvenile-justice reform, Bush proposed a total overhaul of the unfair property-tax system. His plan was widely viewed as a make-or-break gambit. "He absolutely cannot politically afford for it to fail," wrote the Houston Chronicle at the time, if he had any hopes of higher office. His plan would have slashed property taxes as much as 40 percent, but made up the lost revenue partly with a new business tax, and by slapping sales tax on everything from car washes...