Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...primary focus is to see if there are any organizing efforts we can do for [tenants]," she says. "If we just give advice on the phone, that just ends the effort right there. There isn't any continued involvement...
...perceived "break-up" of the Seton-Redmond ticket (News, Nov. 29). Kamil E. Redmond '00 and I have spoken and have no hard feelings. While we've always agreed on some things and disagreed on others, I am proud of the work that we've done and the effort that we've put in. Judging whether our election was a good choice for the student body is somebody else's business, not mine...
...chose to work in the existing system because I felt that such an effort would be too difficult to sustain from year to year, and that much of the the council's lobbying efforts made the same progress. The council's professionalism and responsibility has increased since the introduction of popular elections for the council president four years ago. In these four years, the council's role in College decisions has increased. I feel that this incremental approach--which has seen policy changes in phone rates, dining services, house life, UHS, security and safety, advising, book prices and student group...
...course honors like these aren't something you work toward, but it is a nice recognition of the time and effort that goes into schoolwork," Baer said...
...massive infusion of effort would cause scores to improve so substantially that 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...