Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very few students would fail the exam, then perhaps the proposed high stakes system would be reasonable. However, overall scores rose only very slightly from the first time the test was taken to the second time. In some areas, scores fell despite classroom emphasis on test preparation. It seems clear that scores on this test, like the quality of education in general, can change only gradually. Three years is not enough time to improve a 40 percent failure rate to a reasonable success rate...
...opening pages of Disgrace, which has just won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize, David Lurie, a white professor of communications, assesses his life: "He is in good health, his mind is clear... He lives within his income, within his temperament, within his emotional means. Is he happy? By most measurements, yes, he believes he is." And then comes the first crack in the wall of his self-satisfaction: "However, he has not forgotten the last chorus of Oedipus: Call no man happy until he is dead...
...cheer about than Meditation. Farrell's painstaking stagings are to a run-of-the-mill City Ballet performance as a freshly cleaned Old Master canvas is to a fuzzy reproduction. Steps you took for granted--or never really saw before--now stand out in high relief, unexaggerated yet breathtakingly clear and stylish. Most memorable of all are excerpts from Balanchine's Divertimento No. 15, a notoriously difficult dance whose intricate patterns have rarely been realized with such crystalline simplicity...
Sandy Batkin, 76, is one such paternalist. He felt he had to sell his Universal Folding Box Co. in Hoboken, N.J., after his heirs made it clear they had no interest in carrying on the business. But he held out until he found a buyer, Workflow Management of Palm Beach, Fla., that would pledge to keep his 165 employees. "I know almost all the employees by name," says Batkin. "I know their families. It was very important to me that I sell to a company that was not going to liquidate and move the business somewhere else...
...alumni. The university contends that it keeps vigilant watch over the project; a faculty adviser manages the site, and all the students undergo safety training. Cranes and other heavy machinery are operated by licensed construction workers, three of whom are on hand at the site. But it's not clear how many adults were still around at the late hour of the accident. Then there are questions about whether the work site was sufficiently regulated in the first place. Though at 55 ft. tall and a reported 2,700 tons, the finished tower could rival an apartment house, no building...