"We assume that anytime he catches it on the block, it's two points, " said NYU-Poly coach Nolan Adams, a former Skyline Conference player and current eighth-grade special-education teacher in Kensington.

WSJ: Prediction: This Won't End Well For NYU-Poly

However, with the increasing difficulties of dealing with a Central Bank under sanctions, even countries sympathetic to the Syrian regime have been unwilling to go through so much trouble just to acquire Syrian oil, which, to boot, is mostly a low-grade crude needing special refineries.

CNN: Syrian isolation marks regime's nadir

There is also increasing evidence that interventions can produce middle-to longer-run effects on school achievement, special education placement, grade retention, disruptive behavior and delinquency and high school graduation.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

David Cameron's pledge would go further than this by including all meetings (not just hospitality) for special advisers and - significantly - by also covering permanent secretaries, the top grade of the civil service.

BBC: Is a wedding a meeting? What about a slumber party?

In fact, for the third year in a row the default rate for non-investment grade bonds stood at 1.9 percent, Fitch Ratings said Monday in a special report.

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