- fusty=musty=hackneyed
- square A with B: harmonize A with B
- follow from = come from=be caused by
- benchmark=indicator
a degree is not necessarily the benchmark of a good education
- There has been some progress over the last ten years, but nowhere near as much as could have been achieved. =but the progress is nowhere near as much as (the progress that) could have been achieved.
- The economic losses of educational underperformance are significantly higher than the costs of the financial crisis.
- Simply spending more on education doesn't yield better results.
- The huge resources now being spent to create elite schools would be better used for expanding and improving engineering programs at unflashy polytechnics.
- Largest returns on investment come not from funneling more money toward top or even average performers, but toward those who have been left behind.
- Lower crime rates, fewer welfare payments,as well as better integration of minorities and immigrants.
- ghettoize: round stg up into a ghetto
- based on folk wisdom
- The event served as a wake-up call to space planners.
- keep count=continue counting
- opprobrium=smudge=negative image
- engineers are noodling the idea of building lasers... = producing
- China, a place once synonymous with concubines and bound feet...
- work on an equal footing with men= on equal terms with
- massage parlors
- resistance to hiring women of childbearing age has become widespread
- Signs of patriarchal attitudes abound
- these kind of men (old style)= men of this kind. ★Modern style: this kind of man or these kinds of men
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