Word: compressional
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Gross wrote in a cover letter to Faculty that the slight rise in the mean grade in undergraduate courses indicates “that grade compression continues to be a concern.”
But the urgent search for meaning ran into the real, raw sense of senselessness. "They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time," President George W. Bush said plainly of the students who perished, and parents listening jammed their fists into their eyes and shuddered. There is no...
That's about the only spot of humor in the script, by James Vanderbilt, whose widely circulated screenplay of Richard A. Clarke's Against All Enemies--yet to be made--is a model of compression and clarity. This one, with two main story lines (Toschi's official pursuit and Graysmith...
In McPhee's case, the problem was in his torso. After studying the results of his physical evaluation and a computer-generated chart showing how he transferred energy from his hips to his torso and then to his arms and eventually the clubhead, TPI found that because of his tight...
To add a little razzle-dazzle to its low-key roster, each year the Academy enlists a hot young actress to host the SciTech awards. In the past Scarlett Johansson and Rachel McAdams have done the honors. This year Gyllenhaal took on the challenge of describing work like that of...