She will increase the prestige, quality of education and, most importantly, the character of the leaders who as commissioned Coast Guard officers will ultimately lead our Service while protecting the Nation from threats on the sea, protecting people who use the sea, and protecting the sea itself.

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Cheating rates rise through middle school and by high school, 51% of students admit to cheating on a test in the past year, and 74% say they have copied another student's homework, according to a 2012 survey of 23, 000 high-school students by the Josephson Institute of Ethics, in Los Angeles, a nonprofit character-education organization.

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Her character, Billie Dawn, the ditzy showgirl mistress of a corrupt businessman, who gets an education in the course of the play, was first defined by Judy Holliday, onstage in 1946 and then in an Oscar-winning film performance in 1950.

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