Sentences with phrase «long uphill road»

The report, «Achieving State and National Literacy Goals, a Long Uphill Road,» prepared by the Santa Monica, Calif. - based RAND Corp. for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, suggests that inadequate progress is being made to bring more students to proficiency in reading by the 2014 deadline set by the No Child Left Behind Act.

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The hybrid's lesser 194 horsepower has its work cut out for it on the long uphill climbs, but is perfectly capable of clipping along at a respectable rate when the road flattens out.
After countless sharp corners and various experiments with steering lock and throttle input leave me agog, the road opens up to long uphill straight and it's time to focus on the engine.
The walk to the beach is a bit long and is on a Windee road with some uphill areas.
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