On education, the Bloomberg administration was among the nation's forerunners in changing the culture of public schools and testing new ideas to raise test scores and student achievement in the mayor's first two terms with then-Chancellor Joel Klein.

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Districts everywhere are under pressure to raise academic test scores, and to do so with ever-shrinking budgets.

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The panel said they believed the test would raise attainment in these areas.

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More of us can be inventors and salesmen, and we need to risk less and less as we test demand, raise funds, and manufacture products.

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Yet Pfizer is actually spending that much on test for one new medicine to raise good cholesterol and clear clogged arteries.

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Russian National Security Advisor Sergei Ivanov refused to comment on the failed test, but said he would raise the subject in upcoming talks with his U.S. counterpart, Sandy Berger.

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Wells Fargo has done better with its purchase of Wachovia, but decent longer-term prospects cannot obscure the fact that a generous stress-test process still required it to raise more capital.

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These types of tactical decisions that test the spirit of the rules, the kind that raise uproar among Formula One aficionados, are nothing new.

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But Brindle is acutely aware that she and her team-mates will have to raise their game even more if they are to improve on the first Test and win at Worcester.

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Secretary of State John Kerry warned North Korea not to conduct a missile test, saying it will be an act of provocation that "will raise people's temperatures" and further isolate the country and its people.

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