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  • For eight years public school educators, parents and students in New York City have suffered through the hallmarks of the neo-liberal education reform movement; we have been inundated with Mr. Klein's endless pro-charter rhetoric, we have watched obscene amounts of our money poured into so-called accountability measures and ill-planned restructuring, all while slashing our school based budgets and demonizing teachers and their union.

    Julie Cavanagh: Wagging my Finger While my Boss Wags the dog Julie Cavanagh 2010

  • My wife Anna and I have become enlightened to the harsh reality of how spontaneous and ill-planned travel can quickly backfire when you're catering to the whims of little people with limited verbal and motor skills.

    Rob Sachs: Road Trip Survival For Dads Rob Sachs 2011

  • For, if there is a failure of Europe, it is, at present, that of its ill-thought-out, ill-planned, and perhaps precipitous extension.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Arte Is Twenty Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • For, if there is a failure of Europe, it is, at present, that of its ill-thought-out, ill-planned, and perhaps precipitous extension.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Arte Is Twenty Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • For, if there is a failure of Europe, it is, at present, that of its ill-thought-out, ill-planned, and perhaps precipitous extension.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Arte Is Twenty Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • He also sensed that ordinary people were losing faith in perestroika, with its endless speeches and slogans, ill-planned campaigns, and disappointing economic results.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • I was not only taken aback by McCain's apparent level of comfort with prolonging a war where we were losing young Americans on a daily basis, but also by his continued, stubborn support for an ill-conceived, ill-planned and ill-managed invasion and occupation of a country based on faulty intelligence at best, and on lies, fear mongering and deception at worst.

    Dorian de Wind: America's '100-Year Wars' Dorian de Wind 2011

  • Tianjin's developers say the city "will serve as an ultra-efficient alternative to ill-planned and heavily polluting mega-cities not only elsewhere in the country, but around the world."

    The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: White House Relents on Solar Panels; Why Congressional Inaction Hasn't Stopped Green Building The Media Consortium 2010

  • I was not only taken aback by McCain's apparent level of comfort with prolonging a war where we were losing young Americans on a daily basis, but also by his continued, stubborn support for an ill-conceived, ill-planned and ill-managed invasion and occupation of a country based on faulty intelligence at best, and on lies, fear mongering and deception at worst.

    Dorian de Wind: America's '100-Year Wars' Dorian de Wind 2011

  • For, if there is a failure of Europe, it is, at present, that of its ill-thought-out, ill-planned, and perhaps precipitous extension.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Arte Is Twenty Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

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