Word: accu
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...behind Brickell. When the city manager cut $5 million from the school budget two years ago, 30,000 citizens signed petitions opposing the cut; hundreds came to a public hearing to praise the school system and attack the city manager. "Revolutions happen not suddenly but after a long accu- mulation of grievances and awareness of defects," says Philosopher Mortimer Adler, who is optimistic that the re-forms will continue. "This is the first time that the central matter is being discussed teaching and learning. Not civil rights or free lunches or girls vs. boys." If state legislatures, public forums...
...redundant coverage given Montana and others, the magazines also offer articles which strive to be different. Lou Sahadi's Pro Football Annual unveils "secret ratings on every quarterback" from the "private files" of one of the league's most respected personnel experts Goal Post Football offers a "New!! ACCU-RATE Power Rating System" for the National Football League's 28 teams. And Game Plan Pro Football employs the "Stat-Key System" for the same purpose. "The Stat-Key annual enables the fan to estimate point differences between the scores of opposing teams. The Offensive and Defensive ratings enable...
...Crimson women were denied possible first in the half-mile when co-captain Clabby and a UNH runner snapped the tape together. The judges, without the aid of an accu-timer, awarded the top spot to UNH. Freshman Grace Defries copped third in that event with a 2:20.6 timing...
Almost all TV weathercasters rely primarily upon the basic data provided by the National Weather Service. A private ser vice, Accu-Weather, supplies information to more than 40 TV stations around the nation. But weathermen, the good ones at least, pa somewhat like doctors: several examining the same patient may arrive at different diagnoses. Experience and savvy count-knowing, for example, when a minor geographical shift of a pressure system might make the difference between a drenching rain and a couple of feet of snow...