Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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LEVY: Last year the Board of Education voted to do away with social promotion on the theory that children were not being helped by simply being passed along. Starting in third grade, children can be held back. We now have almost a quarter of the system going to summer school. Unfortunately it's only four or five weeks. I wish that it were longer so that those children who need it could get year-round help...
ROMER: Here in L.A. I've got a pretty steep mountain to climb in terms of space limitations, leaving little flexibility for summer...
...hate thought ("I hate Jews/ blacks/ gay people/ Catholics/ old people/ Walloons/ Bosnian Muslims/ Italians/ Latinos/ Other") flashed for an instant in the perpetrator's brain, like summer lightning, but no deed was done, then would the mere thought - tagging along as, so to speak, cheerleader in the vivid, if Orwellian, phrase "hate crime" - be worthy, in itself, of 10 to 15 years in jail? If not, then why, under hate crimes law, is this matter of the perpetrator's state of mind taken into consideration...
...Senator" Bob Torricelli is really a day trader. In one frenzied period last summer, the New Jersey Democrat bought $1,001 to $15,000 (the forms congressmen fill out don't require exact numbers) worth of DrKoop.com on Aug. 5 and sold it the same day. He then bought an equal amount of Novell on Aug. 10, also selling it the same day. And on Aug. 11, Mr. Torricelli bought $15,001 to $50,000 worth of AmeriTrade stock and sold it on Aug. 13. Overall, Torricelli's stock holdings - after making hundreds of trades in 1999 - were valued from...
...pride ourselves on creating clothing that everyone can wear for both work and play. In fact, during a staff meeting this morning on Nantucket, we were sipping our fresh-brewed iced tea after a rigorous game of touch football on the lawn when it occurred to us that our summer 2000 line would work extremely well in a tropical island setting. Think bold prints, understated lines and classic comfort: We're sending you several samples, and hope you will forward them on to your 'castaways' without delay...