Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students who will be clawing for their passing grade were first exposed to this type of test in eighth grade, and their low scores did not come as a great shock. The standardized frameworks for English and math, on which the test is based, were completed only a couple of years ago. Since they were distributed, teachers have been expected to adapt to these frameworks, and students have tried valiantly to mold their answers to the format that the MCAS encourages. However, the timetable has been too short, and it is the students who are being shortchanged...
...wait is finally over. During a meeting with the United Federation of Teachers in Manhattan last Tuesday, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton announced--to the shock of absolutely nobody--that she intends to run for the U.S. Senate. It's "time to get moving and get started," she said...
...Melvin's kidnapping of Ben and Sylvia from an early rock concert--than you would think it could hold. What's important is the casual, even digressive, movement of the piece. It plays like a memoir, not a conventional three-act movie. There's room here for Ben to shock his family by dressing as Hitler for Halloween, for a faux-naive stripper to electrify Nate's theater, for the strange power of a new-model Cadillac to cloud the mind of a '50s male. In short, Liberty Heights seems to encompass all the humor, sadness and weirdness of ordinary...
...founder Amit Desai had been determined to shun outside investment, but now they were ready to consider it, and they put out feelers to a venture-capital firm. The financiers offered an introduction to one of their client companies. That turned out to be Personify--somewhat to the shock of Anubis, which had been studying Personify as a potential chief rival. Shana'a and Desai quickly concluded that the companies were an even better fit as partners...
...After five o'clock, no woman walks anywhere alone," Amherst junior Nicole E. Huvelle said. "Everyone's in shock...