Word: booklets
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...recorded." An SAT score of 600, says Brill, means only that there is a two-in-three chance that your true score would be somewhere between 570 and 630; there is a one-in-three chance that it would be below 570 or above 630. According to an ETS booklet, a 72-point difference between two students' scores on the SAT math section, and a 66-point difference on the verbal section, is so statistically insignificant that "it cannot be taken seriously." For the Law Boards, a difference of 67 points cannot be taken seriously...
...most cleverly wrapped political package since Chinatown. And then all of a sudden whap!--it's the dumbest one since The Day the Earth Stood Still. An article in last Thursday's Times about the Rugoft theater chain in New York congratulated the owners for handing out a plot booklet explanation with the price of admision; I wish they'd thought of that at the Maplewood Theater. If I had only known what the hell was going on in the last hour I wouldn't have had to ask: Why does Buck Henry's hair turn white in the space...
When Matina S. Horner picked up this year's guide to Harvard and Radcliffe for perspective students a feeling of irritation crept over her. It was page 22 of the booklet that did it: "No longer separate in admissions, dormitories, classrooms, and the granting of diplomas, Radcliffe College is now in many ways more an idea than an institution." The guide is, after all, an official Harvard-Radcliffe publication and Horner had expected it to represent Radcliffe fairly...
...really, is 50 or so colorful plastic cylinders slipped onto a piece of rope, and it only costs about 75? to make. But Sears, Roebuck, J.C. Penney and Montgomery Ward all carry the Lifeline jump rope (plus its special exercise booklet) for $4.95 a throw. These days, legions of Americans who are neither little girls nor prizefighters are jumping rope-and making Bobby Hinds an instant tycoon...
Unit tests will no longer be counted in the computation of grades for the Summer School's Physics S-1 as the result of the disappearance of a unit test solution booklet from the Science Center last Wednesday, the head of the course announced yesterday...