Word: exam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Orthodox women are exempt from military service only if they can pass an oral examination on their religious beliefs conducted by a board that includes an army rabbi and a representative of the general staff manpower department. Rabbis objected to this system because some genuinely religious girls fail the exam simply because they are none too bright...
After the second hour exam they "drop out like bees," Holmberg said. "After you fail two there's not much point in going on," he added...
...Chicago, Federal Judge Prentice Marshall had been scheduled to order a new promotion examination for city police patrolmen seeking to become sergeants. Marshall had previously ruled that the city's 1973 exam discriminated against blacks and other minorities, and he had ordered a minority hiring quota for new sergeants. But after the Bakke ruling, Attorney Norman Barry, represent-big 111 patrolmen who had passed the 1973 exam but lost out on promotion through imposition of the quota, argued that his clients deserved promotion before any new exam was ordered. Said he: "My people are victims of Judge Marshall...
...older brother set an example of success by going to Annapolis. But, uncertain whether he would be accepted into the Naval Academy, Miller borrowed a car, drove to Santa Fe and took the exam for the Coast Guard Academy. He passed, and at 17 found himself training aboard a Danish sailing ship out of New London, Conn. The discipline, he says, "was awfully healthy," and he began "to understand the techniques of making an organization work." Graduating in 1945, he got to Japan just after the war ended. A year later, at 20, he was given command of a landing...
...burgers, fries, shakes and sandwiches, none of which is going to stick in your memory, or your digestive system, for very long. If you're into classic American soda-shop fare, though, this is the place. It's also open 24 hours a day, which comes in handy around exam time, but can also lead to some interesting experiences: around 4 a.m. or so some of the world's most intense weirdos pop out from under the sidewalks, and it seems they all make a bee-line for Brigham's. It must be the coffee. Anyway, good luck...