Word: b-plus
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...tried my best to curve the marks around a B-plus...
...mean to endorse one type of undergraduate experience over any other. We cannot ignore, however, the fact that grades evaluate just the academic component of our college years. And the ever-agonizing drop from an A-minus to a B-plus or a B is not significant enough to distinguish those who devote the majority of their waking hours to organizations, community service and, dare I say, campus publications from those who immerse themselves in academics. Transcripts should reflect--and reward--the efforts of those who labor over their classes and, as a result, perform exceptionally well. After all, extracurricular...
...knows. Indeed, if Mansfield weren't so preoccupied with standing up against the liberal gods of grade inflation--who have so erroneously fooled the world into thinking that ignorant Harvard students are capable of earning high marks--he might discover that some students in his class actually deserve a B-plus, or maybe even...
...maintenance. He played himself in "The Sunshine Boys" and "The Player," and in fictionalized biographies of Jack Kerouac and Jerry Lee Lewis. He continued to indulge his polymathic talents and appetites. It wasn't that he was terrific at everything he tried; most of his efforts would earn a B-plus to B-minus. But he tried so many things - and so much of them...
Batterson: I went on the Internet and pulled off some stuff about George Bush and Al Gore on their programs. I found out that the Small Business Survival Committee, a lobbying group that claims to have 50,000 small-business members, basically gave Governor Bush a B-plus for his small- business program and gave Vice President Gore...