Given the current federal and state preoccupation with standardized testing in core subjects, it is particularly crucial that educators multiculturalize core curricula such as math, science, reading, and writing.
Pitting Laura against a symbol of blue-state preoccupations, an African-American orphan (Yara Shahidi) whose soulful sculptures break hearts, Mr. Smith has carved an iceberg in pearls.
American politics is returning to a long-forgotten state of preoccupation with banking.
In comparative welfare state research, the preoccupation with expenditure data has also meant that the welfare state itself has remained a black box.
His high-profile trip fits neatly into his foreign-policy preoccupations.Syrian state television has been full of the goings-on in Tehran, but one of its channels this week took time to show a historical film that pits oppressed Arabs against Turkish tyrants.
Trade growth, GDP, global integration were among the principal preoccupations of state houses and board rooms, interspersed with the occasional conflict or political setback.
The agency is effectively asking Chinese auditors to flout local law, or China to cast off its preoccupation with state secrecy.
The polar opposite of a preoccupation with state support of terrorism is the view that, in the modern world, intense hatred is self-organizing and self-empowering.
He must now resist them if they demand any erosion of the separation of mosque and state.A more immediate preoccupation may be the economy, which is less parlous than it was but still requires careful nursing.
Between 500 and 386 bc Persia was for the policy-making classes in the largest Greek states a constant preoccupation.
Lawmakers in multiple states share my preoccupation with the plumbing of my commode companions.
