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...grades of a large, representative population, and in the minds of many that frequency distribution, intended to be descriptive, has become normative. Whether a teacher uses a precise formula or a rough estimate, he tends to think that the largest number of grades in his course ought to cluster around an average (a "C"), with roughly equal numbers of grades above and below that average. But these days he discovers that the average in his courses is a "B,' or a "B-plus" and that grades like "D" and "F" have largely disappeared. Guiltily he feels that he has failed...
...Crimson slashed through the front nine with John Bartlett forging a 38 and Alex Vik sauntering to nine consecutive pars, despite having to lag up on a cluster of early doglegs...
Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments on the right of the city of Detroit to use another kind of regulation. Though Detroit's policy is to disperse rather than cluster its porn shops, the court's decision, due in June, will presumably settle a community's right to use zoning against porn...
...product line." Now O'Demus and his partner, Frank Morris, 25, employ 18 people at their Trading Post Enterprises, which grosses $500,000 a year from making bondage materials, whips, chains and other devices, mostly for the homosexual trade, and selling them on the premises in a cluster of "boutiques." Says Morris: "We're trying to be the world's first and only gay department store?a gay Macy...
...same percentage); Europeans have wanted "harmonization" (extra-deep cuts in the highest tariffs). Even though tariffs in both the U.S. and the Common Market average between 9% and 10%, Europeans argue that U.S. duties are unevenly distributed between very high and very low rates, while theirs tend to cluster within a narrower range...