Word: equal
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...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 to give sufficiently difficult examinations or to mark them...
...selective growth. This concept, which promises to be every bit as difficult to put into operation as no-growth, requires nations to take voluntary actions aimed at speeding the development of the poorer countries while slowing that of their industrialized brethren. The desired result would be a much more equal division of the world's riches and productive capacities, which could lead to global peace and prosperity through economic interdependence...
...Monty Python Live! the operative word is "live," for almost all of the routines have been seen before on American TV. Fortunately, they are unkillably hilarious even in repetition. Since the performers understandably need to catch their breath, film clips share equal billing with the live players' stage antics. When John Cleese delivers a diatribe to a shyster pet-shop owner while flogging the dead parrot that has been sold to him, the funning is lethally potent. So is the spoof on TV wrestling, in which the solo performer, Graham Chapman, is finger-jabbed and pretzel-twisted...
Died. Myra K. Wolfgang, 61, outspoken union leader who two years ago helped organize the 3,200-member nationwide Coalition of Labor Union Women; of cancer; in Detroit. As vice president of the 500,000-member Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International, she testified against the Equal Rights Amendment. "I am afraid of equality of mistreatment," she told a Senate subcommittee...
...Berger seems a little more optimistic. While it's true there is less public attention paid now to feminism than there once was, she says, a lot of women are working quietly on changing society, working for equal opportunity laws and welfare rights for unmarried mothers. "Women have moved out into very committed smaller nuclei, organizing through the community in which they live, in health care, schools, and so forth," she says. "They're not as raucous as they used to be, they're not doing anything the media could really pick up on. But at least they're presenting...