Word: progressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...presidential election this November offers voters a choice between real, tangible, meaningful reform and repackaged, failed policies of the last eight years. Real progress in education will take much more than the tired liberal spending that is the hallmark of the policy advocated by Vice President Al Gore '69. Indeed, Gore is so bound to money from the special interest teachers' unions and National Education Association representatives that one leading education commentator this week concluded that while Gore mouths reformist education ideas, there's nothing in his record to indicate that he would stand up to education unions and take...
...worse. Test scores and national ranking against other countries' students have declined, and in a society that is very much divided in those who can read and those who cannot, 77 percent of children in urban high-poverty schools are reading "below basic" on the National Assessment of Educational Progress...
Shuttle Service officials said the schedule is an annual work in progress. Carl A. Tempesta, operations manager for transportation services, said he is open to hearing the concerns of students...
...need another user to get onto the network --It's a grass-roots effort, which means no tech-support hot line --Gnutella is a work-in-progress, so there are still bugs in the code
...however, that order (although not the job) was eliminated. A century of Freudian psychology and medical progress was harsh on exorcism. Conditions previously thought diabolical, such as Tourette's syndrome, proved medically treatable. In the wake of Vatican II, many American Catholics "wanted to restrict things to only a scientific way of knowing" and shied away from the rite's supernatural literalism, says the Rev. Kazimierz Kowalski, an exorcist in Manhattan. Notes the Rev. James LeBar, who took up the work in 1989: "The whole thing kind of went down to embers...