Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...four-and-a-half hour meeting, the council set aside unfinished business from last spring and concentrated instead on issues that arose during the summer...
Friendship among nations based on mutual recognition and respect has always been the essence of the Olympic spirit. And it was that spirit that animated the broad smile on the face of Israeli fencing coach Alex Spitzer in Munich in the summer of 1972, as he sauntered back to his wife, Ankie, after chatting with members of the team representing Lebanon, a nation with whom Alex's was legally...
Occasionally even world leaders need to take a break from the affairs of state and kick back. But they don't have to write a report about it when summer is over. An in-depth analysis, however, of the frolicsome activities of the class of 2000 shows that even while they're having fun, the Big Guys are still hard at work...
...past few years, we have seen the enormous benefits that flow to disadvantaged students because of the information provided by state tests. Those who fall behind are now getting extra instruction in after-school classes and summer programs. In their efforts to improve student performance, states are increasing teachers' salaries, testing new teachers and insisting on better teacher education...
...Medicare program (39%) to provide better health care, while 20% were not sure. But early tests of how well private insurance companies treat seniors have not been promising. Health-maintenance organizations rushed in when the government gave them a larger opening in the Medicare market three years ago. This summer scores of HMOs announced that they are dropping their Medicare policies, leaving nearly 1 million senior citizens who had signed up for them scrambling to find coverage elsewhere, either in other HMOs or by returning to the traditional fee-for-service program. No state was as hard hit as Bush...