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Meanwhile America's schoolchildren score even more poorly in history than in maths: 64% of high-school seniors scored "basic" on a national maths test in 2009, but only 47% reached that level on the most recent national history test.One problem, a new report argues, is that states have pathetic standards for what history should be taught.
Don't have pathetic delusions of being a god when you're not even close to being a government lapdog.
But Fagin is not as bad as the black-hearted Bill Sikes Jamie Foremann), domestic-violence culprit and pit-bull fancier, and Fagin himself has pathetic quaverings of a conscience.
They had pathetic melt-downs and stamped their suede feet, until their admin problems were sorted out, whereupon a Go to the naughty step! muttered after a retreating tweed back would summon up collegial laughter.
By contrast, the U.S. has pathetic 12 weeks of unpaid leave -- and it's only available if you work for a large company.
These days, when he's having pathetic tiffs with beer-wattle journalists and fans in hotels, it's easy to forget that no one brought fury to the Premier League quite like Roy Keane.
That would have been pathetic.
The results have been pathetic.
"I'm aware I have a pathetic tolerance of politicians.
Had he laid claim to the arriviste Nets, it would have been pathetic but acceptable.
