Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purpose of the change in the LSATs was "to give the better students a chance to excel, by sprinkling rougher questions throughout the upper range of the LSATs." Before ETS altered the test, Lydon explains, "there was a lumping of people scoring in the upper-600s, and an extreme drop in the over-700 scores. What they did was to add more difficult questions, in order to make the scoring curve more like a normal bell-curve distribution...
...went to a phone booth on the Garden State Parkway. It rang and Jim's now familiar voice told him to look under the shelf of a nearby phone, where he found written instructions. He was to stuff his documents into a used milk container and make the drop at the base of a telephone pole on Fulner Street in South Amboy. Waiting for him there was a red coffee can containing $3,000, which brought his total payoff to $16,000. The can also held another message: "By the way, have you paid attention to my request...
...work on this new mission, making the final drop at Woodbridge just before the FBI closed in. The agents had no problem identifying their quarry: Enger and Chernyayev had used cars-observed near the drop-off points-registered in their own names...
They pulled up to the United Nations' glassy Manhattan headquarters by the limousine load-President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing of France, Premier Thorbjörn Falldin of Sweden, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada. All together, 20 heads of state or government were scheduled to drop in on the five-week-long proceedings. The occasion that brought them: an unprecedented session of the 149-member General Assembly devoted solely to disarmament, the largest group ever convened in an attempt to reverse the world's steady accumulation of ever more and deadlier weapons...
Jack Carlson, chief economist of the National Chamber of Commerce and a former top OMB official, says: "The President needs a change at OMB, a man who can stand toe-to-toe with someone like Labor Secretary Ray Marshall or Defense Secretary Harold Brown and tell him to drop programs." Carlson's glum conclusion: "There will be no serious budget cutting with Mclntyre there...