Word: asterisked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said the University's new make-up examination policy--requiring as asterisk to appear on the student's transcript beside each grade that is based on a make-up exam--may have "dampened students' enthusiasm" for using the make-up exam option...
John B. Anderson, Illinois Republican and declared presidential candidate, defending his rather low popularity ratings in recent polls: "I'm no longer an asterisk. I've achieved a percentage...
Beginning this semester, grade transcripts will mark any grade entered late because of make-up examinations or paper extensions with an asterisk and an explanatory note...
...negotiators zeroed in on an agreement, the policymakers tended to look more and more over their shoulders at Congress. The White House fired off a cable to Geneva ordering the U.S. delegation to insert an asterisk after the first reference to "treaty" in the Joint Draft Text that was being negotiated. The asterisk called attention to a footnote stipulating that the document, in its final form, might be an agreement for approval by a simple majority of both houses instead of a treaty requiring ratification by two-thirds of the Senate. The Soviets never took the asterisk terribly seriously...
...ATTEMPT to discourage the growing numbers of students who flock to University Health Services (UHS) each examination period for medical excuses, the Faculty Council last week ruled that starting next fall an asterisk will appear on transcripts to mark courses in which students have taken make-up exams. The Faculty Council adopted the policy, citing the 300 per cent increase over the last five years in the number of students "sicking out"--as taking a medical excuse is called...