However this year the previous seven-point achievement system has been replaced.

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The chances are the war will continue until Mr Olmert can point to some sort of achievement.

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But this is not an appropriate role for public policy at this point when the barriers to achievement have been taken away.

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Victor Sharapova made a point of praising Errani's achievement in reaching the final.

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But this is to miss the point of Roy Lichtenstein's achievement.

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Moreover, he could point to a solid, indisputable, achievement as a doctor-politician: his campaign to eradicate tuberculosis in Ireland.

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If most Americans feel there is no point in rebelling against conventional measures of achievement, the pressure to succeed grows heavier.

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The average point score is designed better to reflect the achievement of all pupils, not only those reaching Level 4.

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"It's a double-edged sword - from a team point of view it's a fantastic achievement but we are driven to win, " said McNish.

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The bands were used to draw up a reference point of 100 which was the "median" achievement of all the students.

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Most networks don't consider adding one new episode of a show each week a major achievement, we'll be very excited when MHD reaches that point.

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Over the three-year observation period, the African-American students who took part in the study had higher grade-point averages relative to multiple control groups, and the minority achievement gap overall was reduced by a dramatic 50%.

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Mr. ROTHERHAM: Well, I think the biggest thing that I would point to as a success is we are now finally having a national conversation about the achievement gap.

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But I think that dismissing the YouTube livestream achievement as trivial is like the joke about the talking dog that was criticized for not enunciating properly: the real point is that YouTube has blown post being merely a repository for archived video and is now a prominent force in live, real-time national news coverage.

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