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• Golovin victorious in Portoroz, Kirilenko in Kolkata

  Published: September 24, 2007, 2:53 pm

  Tags: Maria Kirilenko, Tatiana Golovin, Portoroz, Kirilenko, Koryttseva, Kolkata, Golovin, Regain, Strikes, Smaller

  US Open, so she played the smaller Portoroz event in an attempt to regain her rhythm. "My form is up again," said the 19-year-old Frenchwoman. "I have a feeling that my strikes are like at the start of the season." World No.35 Kirilenko faced no difficulty in outplaying a first-time singles finalist Koryttseva who made too

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• For Seniors, Assisted Living On Smaller Scale

  Published: December 8, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: For, Seniors, Assisted, Living, Smaller, Scale, Lisa Max, Lori Larson, Bethesda, Jonathan Edenbaum, Elizabeth Boehner, Montgomery County Maryland, Katie Rivas, Patricia Bach, Suburban Hospital, Doris Epstein, Michael Hargrave, Paul Williams, Richmond, Rita Wilson, Roberta

  From the curb, the large yellow house on Ipswich Road looks like one of many new homes in a Bethesda neighborhood dotted with tear-downs. It is a trim, two-story modern Victorian. But there's no garage. A wheelchair ramp inclines toward the porch.

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• Candidates Face Big Primaries With Smaller War Chests

  Published: January 22, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Candidates, Face, Big, Primaries, With, Smaller, War, Chests, California, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Don Sipple, Evan Tracey, Ken Goldstein, Florida, Massachusetts, John Mccain, Ken Mehlman, Los Angeles, Matthew Klink, Phil Musser, Tom Stemberg, Service Employe

  With their campaign treasuries running on empty and only weeks to attract support in the nearly two dozen states that will cast ballots on Feb. 5, candidates for president are scrambling to find creative and unorthodox ways to grab the attention of voters with the funds they have remaining.

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• Candidates Face Big Primaries With Smaller War Chests

  Published: January 22, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Candidates, Face, Big, Primaries, With, Smaller, War, Chests, California, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Don Sipple, Evan Tracey, Ken Goldstein, Florida, Massachusetts, John Mccain, Ken Mehlman, Los Angeles, Matthew Klink, Phil Musser, Tom Stemberg, Service Employe

  With their campaign treasuries running on empty and only weeks to attract support in the nearly two dozen states that will cast ballots on Feb. 5, candidates for president are scrambling to find creative and unorthodox ways to grab the attention of voters with the funds they have remaining.

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• Queens Getting 6 New High Schools By Jess Wisloski- NY Daily News

  Published: February 19, 2008, 3:48 pm

  Tags: High School, Joel Klein, Education, Queens, Schools, Mayor Bloomberg, Smaller Class Size

  critics call the push for smaller schools inequitable, and say the effort is a catalyst for overcrowding."Every kid, no matter where they go to school, should get the benefit of smaller classes," said Leonie Haimson, president of educational advocacy group Class Size Matters. "Instead, some kids are getting better opportunities but at the cost

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• Teachers' Furor Over Slashed Budget By Jess Wisloski NY Daily News

  Published: March 4, 2008, 1:19 am

  Tags: Education, Queens, Schools, Mayor Bloomberg, Uft, Smaller Class Size

  we were able to have a smaller class sizes," said Joanne Rodeschin, a fifth-grade teacher at PS 150. The city's efforts to reduce class sizes whittled down her normal class size of 30 to just 23 this year. A budget crunch zaps such extravagances, she said. "The mayor [said in a Jan. 31 comment] any organization can absorb 1.75%," said the

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• Overcrowded School Gets Fined by Lee Landor - Queens Chronicle

  Published: April 25, 2008, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Cb10, Schools, Queens Chronicle, South Ozone Park, Smaller Class Size

  option to send children to a smaller middle school became available, parents pulled their children out of J.H.S. 226 and enrolled them in P.S. 124. In addition to this, the Department of Education opened access to P.S. 124's gifted program to qualified children who do not live in the school zone.Operating well above capacity, the school cut pre-K

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• Building Smaller, Selling Smarter

  Published: April 26, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Building, Smaller, Selling, Smarter, Beazer Homes Usa Inc, Celia Chen, Don Knutson, Gopal Ahluwalia, Angeli A Escalante, Angie Bresnahan, Bill Gilligan, Cheryl Carte, Georgetown, Leesburg, Reston, Ritu Desai, Sean Degen, Economy Com Inc, Keller Williams Realty Inc, National

  Less is getting noticed more. Some home builders are cutting back on square footage, downgrading fixtures or offering fewer luxuries to keep costs down. The hope is to lure not only people on tight budgets, but also baby boomers with grown children and energy-conscious buyers of all ages. "We are...

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• New iPhone rumor points to smaller iPhone

  Published: April 29, 2008, 7:45 pm

  Tags: Rumors, Mac Os, Iphone, Apple, 3g Iphone, Gps, Iphone Nano, Smaller Iphone

  Apple planning on a smaller variant to its iconic iPhone? According to Taiwan Economic News, sources in the supply chain are indicating that a lighter-weight and smaller variant of the iPhone is in the pipeline. Weighing in at 110-120g, compared to the current iPhone's 158g weight, the smaller iPhone is said to forgo the aluminum-magnesium

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• May Day March Draws Smaller Crowd

  Published: May 2, 2008, 11:39 pm

  Tags: America, Angeles, California, March, Reform, Union, Citizenship, Civic, Coalition, Compared, Downtown, Festive, Immigrant, Latino, Lower, Participant, Raids, Rally, Rights, Smaller, Thousands, Turnout, Workers, World

  Where is the leadership of the Latino community? How will anyone take serious the concerns of Latinos if they don't come together with a unified agenda?  " In Los Angeles, where about 8,500 people took part in three separate marches that merged to rally at 1st Street...read more

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• Principal Survey Results - ClassSizeMatters.org

  Published: May 21, 2008, 11:37 am

  Tags: Robert Jackson, Nyc Council, Schools, Leonie Haimson, Nyc Department Of Education, Smaller Class Size

  Read original...Read report...May 20, 2008Today, results were released from a survey of more than one third of all NYC public school principals. The report, entitled How Crowded Are Our Schools? is posted here::Fifty-four percent of principals say that the enrollment at their own school is not capped at a level to prevent overcrowding.

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• Size Really Does Matter…

  Published: May 30, 2008, 6:48 pm

  Tags: Incentives, Advocacy, Funding, Issues, School Success, Innovative Ideas, Quality Education, Smaller Schools

  When it comes to schools that is. It seems that some schools are already doing what I've been thinking for years. They are taking the initiative and creating smaller high schools so that the kids don't actually get left behind. While it doesn't necessarily improve the grades as much as they would have hoped, it does get [...]

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• Apple working on 2.8- and 3.2-inch iPhone? Thinner and thicker iPhone in the works?

  Published: June 6, 2008, 2:57 pm

  Tags: Rumors, Iphone, Apple, 3g Iphone, Apple, Apple Iphone, Iphone, Iphone Nano, Smaller, Thicker, Thinner Iphone

  panel could be used in a smaller iPhone without 3G. If true, those competing rumors that the next-generation iPhone will be thicker or thinner than the current iPhone could each be referring to different next-gen iPhone models. Could we see a smaller iPhone, lacking 3G and priced at $200, get announced on June 9? Time will tell, and the wait

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• KEEP the PROMISE! Speak Out Against NYC Budget Cuts to Public Schools!

  Published: June 7, 2008, 12:44 pm

  Tags: Christine Quinn, Budget Cuts, Nyc Council, Joel Klein, Schools, Mayor Bloomberg, Cfe, Smaller Class Size

  Click to enlarge...This is the time to Speak Out, have your voice heard on behalf of our children, the future generation of our City and our Country..!

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• Gas prices getting higher, cereal boxes get smaller

  Published: June 22, 2008, 11:00 am

  Tags: Cereal Boxes Smaller, Cerealboxessmaller, General Mills, General Mills Cereal Boxes Shrinking, Generalmills, Generalmillscerealboxesshrinking, Kellloggs Boxes Get Smaller, Kellloggsboxesgetsmaller, Kelloggs

  for Kellogg's says the smaller size is an effort to "offset rising commodity costs for ingredients and energy used to manufacture and distribute these products." I loosely translate to "because gas prices have gone up and corn is being grown for fuel instead of food (or floating away in poor, waterlogged Iowa) the glory days of boxed cereal

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