English III Unit 2

Child care ranked No. 2 on the list for affluent families, while those on tighter budgets devoted a greater amount to necessities like food. Chicago Tribune (Aug 29, 2013)

It is banter as bonding exercise, a way of forging a connection by sharing laughs.

Much was made last Friday in regards to the brevity of the press conference Mayor Ford held.

Afterward, the piece took on more sinister connotations.

They formed, painted and embellished their sculptures in personally and culturally symbolic ways. Seattle Times (Mar 20, 2013)

He had little interest in being a stereotypical model minority; when he faced racial epithets at school, he fought back.

Leaders have to tread carefully around certain topics, but that can be done without lying or even being particularly evasive.

Spooky dried flowers and herbs hang over the bar, evoking not a Tuscan farmhouse but an abandoned cabin being used for Wiccan rituals.

He also foreshadowed big changes in the school spending formula, saying the current system was erratic.

Travelling back in time is a silly fantasy I conceived of only due to imbibing too much balché yesterday evening. Nature (Apr 24, 2013)

Perhaps the president was trying to infer something about Putin’s intentions or public posturing based on his — well, actual posture.

Making people’s existing opportunities a little better is laudable, but giving them new opportunities is the better solution overall.

Officials say he is lucid, but that doctors treated him for unexpected bleeding and then a respiratory infection after last week's procedure. New York Times (Dec 19, 2012)

The pleasures of “Pacific Rim,” in other words, are somewhat nostalgic, and maybe also regressive.

Wednesdays are novice nights, when newcomers join experienced regulars, who all know each other well. Seattle Times (Jun 12, 2013)

Friday's complaint said setting lower educational expectations for minorities perpetuates stereotypes and "harkens back to an era that tolerated state-sanctioned racial discrimination."

In a press conference last month House Speaker John Boehner reiterated that he is unwilling to raise the debt ceiling without proportional cuts in spending.

Field biologists have a strange affinity for spending countless hours in the hot sun scrutinizing tiny things. Scientific American (Sep 4, 2013)

Some students had received stipends through the work study program, and the students’ individual money was being used to pay for schoolwide programming or curriculum.

The work being carried out at Glasgow University will be outlined at a Giant Panda Research Symposium at Edinburgh Zoo on 10 to 12 September.