If you doubt this will work, look at Chicago, which ended social promotion and made summer school mandatory for those who don't master the basics.
In the new marketplace, devices people can't master in five minutes will result in a lot of returned items, which very quickly makes a product unprofitable.
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The instrument panel manages to be informative, useful, and friendly, and doesn't require a master's degree in ergonomics.
Intel's processors deliver better performance without increasing their consumption of power, all else being equal--a trick Advanced Micro Devices isn't expected to master until later this year.
And though he feared he couldn't afford his master's degree, he found work with the research and development arm of the U.S. Army and left school debt-free.
But top officials like state Education Commissioner John King and New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott say students can't wait to master the harder exams if they want to compete in the global economy.
Intel's processors deliver better performance without increasing their consumption of power, all else being equal--a trick Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) isn't expected to master until later this year.
If you don't like the site and think UFO study is malarkey, don't flame its Web master and tell him I sent you.
Make no bones about it, Stephenson doesn't fancy himself a master game designer, but he set out to create a PC arena game that's light on story and character development, but laser-focused on accuracy.
At first, Mr. Davidson didn't want to tackle the master bathroom, even though he hated its green tiles, the sinks shoved in one corner and the toilet standing in the middle of the room.
It doesn't matter if you are a master at real-time strategy games--if it's your first action-adventure game, you might be really bad at it.
Master winemakers aren't the only ones bringing home accolades.
Apprentices must train for years under master guides and don't just learn to spot and track animals from the comfort and safety of their vehicles.
"If I went to a doctor and the doctor was a master doctor but hadn't operated in several years, I wouldn't be comfortable having them operate on me, " he said.
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London is the big star, but if the Dutch master thinks athletes aren't reaching hard enough for the smaller stars - like Turin - then they might find themselves ditched long before 2012.
Capellas, otherwise a master of clarity, isn't much help here.
He introduced me to the crowd as a great karate master, an accolade I didn't merit.
The rap on this master southpaw was that he didn't consistently face top-notch opposition.
The two men -- master and slave -- hadn't seen each other in more than a decade.
As a result, a tenured teacher with a master's degree whose students aren't learning much will always earn more than a recent college graduate whose students are sweeping the academic decathlon.
The Funk Chubby isn't ideal for taking down a vert ramp or trying to master the elusive kickflip.
Harver wears a T-shirt that says: Do Not Taunt the Web master.
It wasn't until he got hired by NASA, after completing his master's degree in computer science, that he realized the wall never existed.
In two interviews they were questioning the master's degree if -- they wouldn't think I would last there too long.
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Stops of light at first seems confusing and not as important to those who don't understand exposure, but if you ever plan to become a master at photography, learning the terminology is key.
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And while Linux can easily master big jobs, proprietary code means that it doesn't always work with movies, music and peripherals as smoothly on the desktop as the alternatives.
At Parris Island, South Carolina, hundreds of Marines graduated Thursday morning from basic training -- a day earlier than planned because the base didn't want Hanna to cause problems for families coming to the celebration, Master Sgt.
Fred Volkmar, director of the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of Medicine, who wasn't involved in the recent study, described one former patient who has a master's degree, goes to work and lives on his own, but every night he eats the same meal, canned fish, reads on the computer about software and then goes to bed.
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