Word: exam
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Hannon played high school ball and in the YMCA league, but was injured in a game when he was 27 and decided to take the mandatory written exam for entering the referee ranks. The would-be refs are also marked on a "flaw test," says Hannon, which "is pretty much cut and dried." After making the grade, refs work junior varsity ball for two years and then apply to be placed on the ECAC freshmen officials list. They are then either elected or relegated to the high schools by a vote of varsity-level officials...
JODY POWELL, 32, Press Secretary. A southwestern Georgia farm boy, he was raised in Vienna (pronounced Vie-anna), not far from Carter's home town of Plains, and was headed for a military career until he was dismissed from the Air Force Academy for cribbing on a history exam in 1964. While working on a doctorate in political science at Georgia State University, he joined Carter as his driver in the 1970 campaign and later became press secretary. Powell spends much time these days replying to charges, often false, about Carter's past...
...Rassenas, hampered with some of those post-exam blues, was only able to salvage one bout in four to round out the Crimson's scoring. Susan Lambiris and Sally Spears were the other Radcliffe duellists and both were slain twice...
...object strenuously to your article "Getting Out of Exams is Easier Than You Think". The article undermines the necessary trust between students and physicians at U.H.S. It is important that the students' complaints of ill health be honored. Since a medical excuse is not equivalent to exemption from an exam, the student is not "getting out" of anything by obtaining the medical excuse, contrary to the implication of your headline...
...eviction letter--coming during exam period--ordered the students to leave South House at the worst possible moment for those involved. Moreever, the decision was based on a right the University should not have, the ability to order student tenants evicted on as little as one minute's notice, according to Harvard's deputy general counsel. This feature of room contracts denies students a routine privilege extended to normal tenants: the right of adequate notice in the case of eviction...