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behind

n. the posterior; the buttocks. (This euphemism is losing out to plain old ass and butt on TV and elsewhere.) She needs some jeans that will flatter her behind.
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While some progress has been made with closing the gap for disadvantaged pupils overall, these pupils still fall behind at a rate of two months a year over secondary school," she said.
Two-year gap between rich and poor at schools
In Pakistan some positive aspects of economic migration in terms of remittances were reported among left behind families, including improvement in their economic condition, social changes, family relationships, educational achievements, savings and investment patterns.
DETERMINANTS OF DEPRESSION ANXIETY STRESS AMONG LEFT BEHIND FAMILIES IN AZAD JAMMU and KASHMIR
Philip Deignan (UnitedHealthcare), Ireland, 4:12 behind.
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STATE OF PLAY: 4-1 (10-12) Mid-division, headway 5 out, driven and soon beaten, 4th of 8, 15l behind Nozic (10-8) at Wetherby 3m 1f Grade 3 hcp chs (4yo+) (1) sft in Dec.
GRAND NATIONAL FORM GUIDE
For those who resist No Child Left Behind in a fundamental way .
Q&A with one of the main architects of NCLB
A passes to C on wing, then cuts behind the cone through the opposite elbow and then out to the opposite corner, as E v-cuts to replace him.
A patterned motion offense
Within a relatively small region behind the expanding shock wave - measuring just a few hundredths of a light-year across - the hottest emissions lie nearest the shock wave and come from ionized oxygen.
Anatomy of a supernova
No Paws Left Behind offers three levels of corporate sponsorship.
Integra Group Real Estate LLC Becomes No Paws Left Behind Corporate Sponsor
Alas, Arazi could do no better than eighth behind Lil E.
THE TOUGHEST STRETCH
By examining history and using charts, the author defines the Left Behind series' view as "premillennial dispensationalist," which can be summarized as follows: Jesus will return to earth at the end of a seven-year tribulation in order to create a kingdom over which he will rule for one thousand years; Jesus will gather the faithful who will be raptured to heaven; and most scriptural promises will be fulfilled in the future.
Left Behind? The Facts Behind the Fiction
Despite the mandate issued by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) Act of 2001 (United States Department of Education [USDOE], 2004), to close the achievement gap, many of America's children are being left behind educationally and will continue to be left behind educationally because the circumstances associated with living in poverty have not been considered.
Katrina and NCLB: mandates but no provisions
With the aircraft already well behind the initial program this reason given for delay is surprising.
Aircraft News - Europe
The Stranger Behind The Copernican Revolution by literary historian Ulrich Mache is an inspirational account of the history of the great astronomer Copernican who was the first to discover that it was actually the Earth which revolved around the sun as opposed to the age-old belief that the sun circled the Earth.
The Stranger Behind The Copernican Revolution
Both of his parents worked for the parish (as custodian and secretary), and the liner notes to the new White Stripes album Get Behind Me, Satan give thanks to, among others, St.
Get Behind Me, Satan
The Federal Reserve is a bit behind the curve in achieving its objective of full employment and price stability.
Overshoot? Behind the curve? Or just right? This time, will the Federal Reserve know how high to raise interest rates? TIE surveyed some leading Fed watchers to assess how the FOMC is doing
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