Word: fourth
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WASHINGTON Teachers complained that the fourth-grade math test was too long and hard, so the exam will be shortened and may be given over several days...
Sydney will be her fourth Olympics, but the first in which she is a favorite. At Seoul in 1988, as a shy 19-year-old, she was 13th. "When I think back, I was soooo naive," she laughs. In 1992 she improved and finished seventh...
Galen Hamilton, a tall, fourth-generation logger, contemplates the timbered mountains (ponderosa pine, Douglas fir) where he grew up around Horseshoe Bend, Idaho. He points to vast, unregenerated bald patches burned off in earlier fires he blames on Forest Service fecklessness, and speaks bitterly about Washington's clueless authoritarianism (so he thinks of it) in shutting down logging operations--in letting the forest become a rank, dangerous tinderbox. The sticker on his pickup reads: ARE YOU AN ENVIRONMENTALIST? OR DO YOU WORK FOR A LIVING...
Promising to "leave no child behind," Bush pledges to replicate the Texas model on a national scale. While Gore calls for voluntary tests in fourth and eighth grades, Bush would require states to test children every year from third through eighth grades or lose 5% of their federal aid. If a school turned in failing grades three years in a row, its students would receive federal vouchers for tuition at parochial or other private schools. But each state would control the content of its exams...
...time--this time is mine," Savon told TIME as his five small children climbed his chiseled 6-ft. 5-in., 201-lb. frame at his Havana home. "I will give everything in my power to win that third gold medal." Savon would probably be fighting for his fourth, if Cuba hadn't boycotted the 1988 Games...