American high-school girls were 33% less likely to get pregnant in 2001 than in 1991.
Xerox, once the darling of the American high-technology community, slipped from its former dominance.
The American high risk, high reward system maps to our diverse culture built on risk-taking immigrants.
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The American high-risk, high-reward system maps to our diverse culture, which was built on risk-taking immigrants.
It's a phrase that can be heard in the hallways of many American high schools.
In that case, he would have over 300 electoral college votes, making American high school students pretty good forecasters.
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In contrast, American high-tech products rose only from 34.5 percent to 35.9 percent of our total exports to China.
African-American high school stars from the South would head north for college.
The math they taught in my senior year at my American high school was at the level of the 4th grade in Korea!!!!!
The contemporary American high school was organized to produce workers for a post-war economy where people would work for the same company their whole lives.
Push: Based On The Novel By Sapphire, is the story of an abused, illiterate African-American high school girl who is pregnant with her second child by her father.
Top African-American high schoolers from the South would head north.
It now plays a critical role in American high tech, as was demonstrated when the production of microchips and other high-tech parts was temporarily disrupted by last year's earthquake.
For years, Kelley had scoured yearbooks for images of those curious rituals and rites of passage that invariably crop up in American high schools, like 4-H Club and prom.
In the 1968 Games, in Mexico City, the American high jumper Dick Fosbury won the gold medal by flipping himself over the bar head first and backward a technique now known as the Fosbury Flop.
Of the 21 nations participating in all phases of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), American high school seniors did better than only two countries: South Africa and Cyprus.
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Olbrich and his colleagues ran several support groups after the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999, still the deadliest event at an American high school, in which 12 students and a teacher died.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a Senate education committee earlier this year that 27 percent of American high schoolers drop out and that 40 percent of the country's "young people" earn a two- or four-year college degree.
Over a third of African American students do not graduate from high school on time with a regular high school diploma, and only four percent of African American high school graduates interested in college are college-ready across a range of subjects.
Speaking at the headquarters of the 3M Company, which makes products ranging from post-it notes to high-tech fuels cell components, he called for tax credits for business research, increased money for federal science programs, and he talked about the need to improve math and science skills of American high school students.
The Center for Security Policy today questioned the Bush Administration's failure to put a proposed acquisition by the Japanese firm Komatsu of a unique American high technology capability on hold, pending a thorough investigation of its national security implications and appropriate decisions concerning steps needed to ensure that such a capability remains available to the United States.
In the U.S., debates about science and religion in the classroom tend to focus on American public high schools, where local school boards argue about Darwin and the Bible.
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Nearly three-quarters stated that the program gave them skills to succeed in the classroom, no small benefit given that 25% of American public high school students drop out before graduation.
Most importantly, we can now take advantage of the momentum this has generated to set high standards for all American children to graduate high school not only physically fit, but financially fit as well.
He was a high-school All-American at Broad Ripple High School before leading Bob Knight's Indiana University squad in scoring for three consecutive seasons.
And it complains about high American tariffs on its exports of sugar, textiles, tobacco and ethanol.
In 1991 she was talent-spotted by an American programme for high-fliers in eastern Europe.
Obesity could prove similar to another American killer, high cholesterol, which was once treatable primarily by diet.
The American helicopter rides high above eastern Afghanistan, through a pass in the towering Hindu Kush range.
Meanwhile, the life expectancy of African-American women without high-school diplomas has surpassed that of similar white women.
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