Word: benchmark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massport officials promised to monitor noise levels in Cambridge over the next few months in order to establish a "benchmark noise level...
...Bakke was, after all, rejected from ten other schools, two of which sent letters informing him that his age was a "serious factor" in determining his case. In addition, more than 30 applicants in each year Bakke applied would have been admitted ahead of him on the basis of benchmark scores, even if 16 slots had not been aside for the Special Program. An overabundance of material outside the trial record challenges Powell's opinion that Bakke was rejected from U.C. Davis because of racial discrimination. While it is true that Bakke's admission is of almost no consequence...
Will Ali come back? He insists that he shall, pinning everything on one last benchmark: becoming the first man to regain the title a third time. "I ain't through yet," he claims. "I want that boy, and I want him bad." The new champion is also eager for a rematch...
...them in each class. By 1974, the university was using application forms that asked for racial identification; the results made it clear that only blacks, Chicanes, American Indians and Asians need apply for the 16 places. The university never denied that by all the standard criteria-grades, test scores, benchmark totals-Bakke's record was better than that of many minority students enrolled. The special 16 in the 1973 class scored average aptitude percentile rankings of 35 in science and 46 in verbal skills; Bakke scored 97 in science and 96 in verbal skills...
...Vandenberg Air Force Base last week to begin an 8 million-year journey in space. The 2-ft. sphere, placed into a 3,600-mile-high circular orbit, contains no moving parts or electronic equipment and resembles an oversized golf ball. Yet it should provide earthbound geophysicists with a benchmark in the sky that will enable them to measure precisely the rotation rate of the earth and the wobble of its axis, continental drift, and the movement along geologic faults. It may even supplement the developing technique of earthquake prediction...