Word: handing
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...years ago, CRLS teachers held a vote at D'Alessandro's request to decide the future of the faculty committee. Only 40 percent favored continuing with the existing process. The majority chose to hand over responsibility to the school department...
...other hand, the public psychology can be attuned to the lowest note on the scale almost indefinitely. Did the public psychology ever get tired of the O. J. Simpson case, for example? Or of postmortem programming about Princess Diana and John Kennedy Jr.? In fact, the decade of the '90s, by a weird dispensation of the gods of media, poured forth a procession of such operas - not the lowest notes always, but, in any case, huge performances, one after another, starting with the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings and rolling on through tragedies like Oklahoma City and Colombine, geopolitical soap...
...football game, shown everywhere on television. Did Mike Deaver come out of retirement (and change political parties) to coach Al and Tipper? "Think Hyannisport, 1960 - think Kennedys!" Gore gets credit for the best cynical JFK imitation since 1988, when Gary Hart would descend from his campaign plane with one hand thrust in his jacket pocket, thumb protruding, à la Jack, and walk gingerly across the tarmac, as if he had injured his back while swimming away from the wreckage of a PT boat...
...current generation of parents, most of whom went to public schools back when there was still a great deal of faith in the system. Voucher advocates should take heart, however: Children of the 1990s, who have seen both the failings and strengths of modern-day public education first hand, may be more amenable to voucher programs by the time they are parents...
...Gore who went live on the evening news with a lawyer-free, two-pronged offer that was the best p.r. coup of his very long campaign: Let the hand counts go on in the three Democratic counties - or hold hand-counts statewide - and include them in the certified results. Loser takes his legal team and goes home...