Word: lines
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Party balance in Congress is on the line, there is dissent among the White House staff...and what does the President spend the week obsessing about? The school-board election in his hometown...
...fully funded, are huge: North Carolina's $6.6 million a year in turnaround money pays for only 14 teams to assist the state's 44 low-performing schools. Gore's national turnaround budget is $500 million a year, and he moves failing schools to the front of the line for funds for after-school programs and to cut class size, but even that may not be enough...
Exchanging pictures was a little trickier. While the controls were clear--you just press a MENU button on top of the frame to select which images to send--Antje noticed that you could transmit only about 10 images at a time, and even that tied up the phone line for as long as 20 minutes. I was disappointed that my digital pictures didn't fill the screen completely--a thin black bar appeared at the top and bottom--but Antje said she didn't mind...
Like all critical darlings, PJ Harvey had a defining moment when she simultaneously endeared herself to rock writers and set off art-house panic alarms in the average listener. That moment was the opening line of her 1993 track Reeling: "I want to bathe in milk/ eat grapes," she raged. "Robert De Niro/ sit on my face." Raw, dark, witty and extremely sexual, Harvey had critics panting, and it's no wonder. But people who actually pay for records stared at the frequently naked form on her album covers; heard the heart-laid-bare, avant-garde songs about frustration...
...Under a Georgia referendum, teachers and other school employees and their families would receive payments, as police already do, if they are "killed of permanently disabled by an act of violence in the line of duty...