Word: openly
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These formats will "provide for a more open and free-flowing exchange of views than in years past," the commission's website said...
...issue of accountability, the difference between the two plans is that Gore's plan starts with accountability, but it does not end there. It makes available new resources that schools need to meet higher standards. Gore would shut down failing schools after two years and re-open them under new management. He would give bonuses to highly qualified teachers willing to teach in failing schools, giving these schools a chance to start over. Bush, on the other hand, would take away federal money earmarked for poor children under Title I, and give the parents of children in failing schools...
...everyone is cheering in Salem Township, a deeply religious community with 7,500 residents and two nude dance clubs. Steve Thomas, father of two, says the existence of the clubs was bad enough, but the drive-through, open since April, further degrades women. He and others meet weekly at Pastor Beth Hans' Straight to the Heart Ministry to write protest letters to judges and politicians. Pastor Hans says she's been counseling men who are fighting the temptation of drive-through flesh. "They get off work and go over there, and their wives are home wondering, 'What is wrong with...
...human brain is particularly vulnerable as it develops through childhood and into the teenage years, finally maturing when we reach our 20s. As the brain develops, windows open up and the mind has its best opportunity to acquire knowledge and easily learn new skills, such as speaking a foreign language. If the window closes--either with the normal passage of time or because the brain has been damaged--learning that language can be much harder...
Ambrose, well known for his narratives of World War II and for Undaunted Courage, a fresh retelling of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, writes with a wide-open throttle: "Only in America was there enough space to utilize the locomotive fully...Only in America was there enough labor or enough energy and imagination." Elsewhere the newly connected nation is described as "an empire of liberty running from sea to shining...