Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Meegeren in the 1940s in the Netherlands when I was a teenager, and his portrait of my father now hangs in my home. He was undoubtedly paranoid. However, he was also very gifted, as numerous paintings and drawings can testify. To judge artists only by the imitations they make is to conclude a priori that they are not original in their...
...recent Government effort to persuade banks to make more loans is an encouraging sign that the credit crunch will not be allowed to strangle the U.S. economy. In Washington last week a conference of New England lawmakers, lenders and economists cited the May 10 meeting between regulators and bankers as evidence that the credit crisis in the Northeast may be easing up. Nonetheless, the experts said the region's economy has been so weakened by the scarcity of credit and other problems that it is likely to remain sluggish for the next 18 months...
...troupe: brainy, unorthodox, funny, demanding and supercilious. He takes up a lot of space in this dishy backstage book: even here, the star system prevails. Despite the author's strenuous attempts at seriousness, the eruptive, disruptive talents who made the theater memorable are the same ones who make The Compass a good read...
...system was Alabama's Sumiton Elementary. "One of the first things our teachers noticed," says vice principal Ilene Black, "was the change in attitude of the students. The parents are very positive; they love the fact that their children like it; they don't have to make them do their homework." John Aston, headmaster at the Undercroft Montessori School in Tulsa marvels that "some of our students are already performing at a masterful level" after less than one year...
...Kumon, while others object to the $45-a-pupil annual cost. Shirley Frye, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, takes a balanced view. "Of course there is no panacea for teaching math," she says. "We are looking for all of the methods that will help make students successful." Kumon certainly seems to be one of them...