Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good face on the results. They emphasize that the lowest-scoring pupils improved somewhat over the 13 years of the study. Says Gregory Anrig, president of Educational Testing Service, of which NAEP is an arm: "The good news is that basics are back and we have raised the bottom." But they acknowledge that the bottom remains much farther down than it ought to be, the middle has not budged since 1972, and neither...
...cases involving Soviet people who are being denied the right to leave the U.S.S.R. or, in the U.S. view, unjustly imprisoned. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater quoted him as telling Gorbachev that for Americans the issue of human rights "has pride of place" because they view it as being at the bottom of differences between the superpowers...
...want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this gesture." Arias told the reception of nearly 100 invited guests in the K-School penthouse. "These two fellowships [are] for the best and brightest students of my country so they can get the education you all have...
According to the Office of Human Resources, 50 percent of the Harvard administration--including both senior posts and middle managers--is female. Yet, critics of the University charge that most women in the administration work at the bottom levels, as secretaries and lower-rung supervisors...
...back, I will remember being a part of a diverse team, one that I enjoyed being a part of. I may still swim when I get the chance, but it will be different on my own. In my opinion, swimming is an absurd sport in many ways, but the bottom line is that I did it because I liked...