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What isn't discussed, however, is the downward pressure on grades exerted by grade-inflation paranoia. "The B+ is kind of caught between the crossfire of this," Lump says. "It's used in response to upward grade inflation, and it's also used in grade deflation. You're trying to deflate grades, so you give someone a B+. You know they're doing work that in another class might get them an A or an A-, [but] you can get away with that. Whereas if you give them, like, a B, they might seriously start to think they'd been...
...tree during the winter holidays. The background is pure black; the contrast in light and dark adds more whiteness and purity to the light, and thus more radiance. Yet it is difficult to overlook the man who carries this light. He stands in a relaxed position, head bent downward as if contemplating his costume of lights. His head directs attention towards the ground where the wires become one, flowing into a socket and then in to the corner of the photograph. The man in the picture is an instrument in the circuit; he provides the framework and carries the wires...
Knowles went so far a say that "the downward trajectory of the annual deficit...shows that we are driving towards a balanced budget within a year...
...continue to view our present position withcautious optimism," Knowles wrote. "The optimismderives from the downward trajectory of the annualdeficit...
...Roosevelt's critics say Weld actually reversed the downward trend of the economy he inherited...