Word: passingly
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...were joined at the hip." Sadler's task was to push control of the schools to the local level while beefing up the statewide system of standards and accountability. "Bush raised the bar on what was acceptable performance," says Sadler, "and then he used his pulpit to help pass the bill...
Last year Bush pushed for a controversial program to end social promotion, the practice of passing students who aren't academically qualified. His initiative would have required third-graders to pass a single standardized reading test in order to earn a ticket to fourth grade. That bothered Sadler, whose support Bush needed. At a meeting last year, Bush challenged him: "Sadler, you gonna pass my social-promotion bill?" Sadler replied, "Nah, I don't like it." "What's the problem?" Bush asked. Sadler told him that holding back students because they failed a single test wasn't fair...
...fiscal issues. But campaign finance reform lays the groundwork for all other reforms. Democrat or Republican, a president who won't fight to stop the unlimited flow of soft money--$750 million projected to be spent on this year's election cycle alone--also won't be able to pass common sense reforms that the majority of the country wants. Is it really a coincidence that the only major reforms we have seen in the Clinton presidency addressed immigration and welfare? While welfare recipients and immigrants are not known for their campaign contributions, health care, gun control, education and corporate...
...When the '70s pass before my eyes, I feel myself sink again into the murk, sucked back into the violence and stupidity, the sleaze and failure, the narcissism and paranoia. It all comes back: riots at the gas pumps, terrorists on every flight, double-digit inflation, the last ignominious helicopters out of Saigon, the explosion of crime, the lousy cars from Detroit, Nixon's sweating upper lip as he says good-bye, the Club of Rome's gaudy apocalypse, the massive dumbing down of everything, and the perfect denouement - the Ayatollah and the hostage crisis...
...Lavicka is not alone. Elnaz F. Firoz '02 also had a creepy Lamont experience. Curled up with her psych book during reading period, Firoz took her shoes off. "I fiddle with them," she explains. Just a little while later, she saw the suspicious character pass by her cubicle--several times--and take a seat in the carrel in front of her. Firoz decided not to let the sketchiness bother her and continued toying with the shoes. But after sliding her feet in and out of the openings, she noticed her shoes felt several sizes too big. "I thought...