Word: progressivity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...hope for environmental enthusiasts is that this concrete proof of the dangers of human pollution with regard for the atmosphere will provide the impetus for measurable progress at this months international summit on global climate control. Most of the countries of the world will be represented at the Hague in a few weeks when details of the 1997 Kyoto Protocola treaty which sets specific goals for the reduction of the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere will ostensibly be resolved. The treaty, which was largely negotiated by Vice President Al Gore 69 (insert joke about Gore being the first...
...real. The idea that Bush is "a uniter, not a divider" or will commit to real progress on leveling the economic, health, and educational playing fields is fallacious. Even if you buy his pledge to go where his political party has not, no one with a divided Congress is uniting much of anything in the next four years, so forget personality and think fitness for office both in terms of foreign policy and the Supreme Court...
...major debate between the two candidates has focused on teacher accountability and the merit of high-stakes testing to measure school success. Gore, unwilling to pressure the teachers' unions from which he derives a significant chunk of his support, would encourage schools to use voluntary testing to measure progress and merely requires that failing schools be identified. Yet without mandated testing to measure failing schools, a missing link exists between identifying these schools and fixing them...
...their pick. The Internet is loaded with financial info; one good source, found at thinkquest.org is Investing for Kids, a website designed by three savvy high schoolers. You can show your kids how to decipher the stock pages in the newspaper's financial section and track a stock's progress over time...
Pudding Music Supervisor Allen G. Feinstein '86 and Padgett met with the prospective composers weekly to discuss their progress before narrowing the pool to four composers, who turned in their versions of five songs...