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...graduate paper." E.T.S. President Gregory Anrig particularly disputes the test-score gains reported in the book, saying that coaching usually produces increases of only 14 to 26 points. Many of the "tricks" that Katzman's Review claims to impart, says Anrig, are explained in a free E.T.S. booklet distributed in advance of the SAT. College administrators view the quarrel with general calm, noting that the SATs, however feared or valid, are just one element in admissions decisions. A few educators have suggested replacing the SATs with exams like the E.T.S. Achievement Tests, which measure knowledge rather than aptitude. Owen insists...
...page booklet, called "The Community--Guide to Harvard," will "throw down the welcome mat and say that there are a lot of things here that are open to the public," said Director of State Relations Richard J. Doherty...
...away their 476-acre cattle ranch, which is $200,000 in debt. "You can't sell land here," says Bud, 53. "Nobody is going to buy it." The Hirsts have hit on a unique way to lay their burden down. They have collected poems by Hazel, 52, in a booklet titled Bitter Harvest, and are selling copies for $8 each (sample verse: "But hope won't clothe your children/ It can't their hunger salve/ It will not pay the mortgage/ And hope is all we have"). Proceeds from the sales will be used to repay the Hirsts' IOUs...
Past peace-related activism sponsored by the City has included the publication of a 1981 booklet. Cambridge and Nuclear Weapons: Where Can We Hide? and the adoption of Ordinance No. 987 establishing the Cambridge Commission on Nuclear Disarmament...
Deng's campaign moved forward on several other fronts last week. A pamphlet containing Deng's major pronouncements over the past two years went on nationwide sale at 10 cents a copy. Titled Building China with Socialist Characteristics, the 72-page booklet stressed productivity as the solution to China's ills. According to Deng, every worker must "find a thousand and one . ways to make the country prosperous," because "when our state is powerful, all will be well." A day later Premier Zhao Ziyang announced in a speech that the rigid wage system for government workers would be loosened...