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...argue that research has been consistently misinterpreted by ETS. The testers, on the other hand, charge their critics with intentionally using improper statistical methods in re-analyzing existing data. The bottom line is that ETS and the College Board contend that using the SAT "improves" prediction by 27 per cent over a system in which high school grades are used alone; Slack and Porter set the factor at "an insignificant 1 to 4 per cent...
...inflation rate was 7 to 8 per cent in 1978, Reardon said, noting that the rate has climbed to about 13 per cent today...
King's Cabinet Task Force said in 1979 that consumer costs would decrease by 5 per cent a year, after the first year, if the bill were enacted, Phelps added...
Douglas H. Phelps, executive director of the Massachusetts Public Interest Group, which lobbied for the bill, said yesterday the bottle bill symbolized concern for the environment referring to a Boston Globe poll that suggested that more than 70 per cent of the public supported the bill...
These changes "move the Stanford endowment to a very innovative limit," Rodney Adams, director of investment, said, adding that Stanford expects to increase the real return of its endowment by 1 per-cent...