Word: exam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...food sucked. I drank soup in my room, worked and fended off an inexplicable herd of admirers who had suddenly materialized when I didn't want to be bothered. As a maniacally drew up my schedules for studying, I discovered to my horror that I had three exams in three days. Had I read the catalogue more carefully, received better advice, I could have avoided that misery; as it was, I entered exam period with the sick feeling of a rookie paratrooper plummeting down onto a field of land mines...
...Administration. Answered Assistant Labor Secretary Robert Lagather: "This test is not part of the instructor course. I was as shocked and disturbed as you were." Lagather recommended a 30-day suspension without pay for the instructor who had used the quiz. Just for good measure, however, Wallop had the exam read into the Congressional Record, where presumably its vulgarity will serve as a good example of a bad joke on the taxpayers...
Students slaving over their books got a little unexpected relief this January, when the state fire marshall rushed to the Science Center to dilute a batch of nitroglycerine prepared by a freshman working on science experiments. The building was evacuated in mid-exam, the nitro was defused, and before long the college was back to mid-winter normal--and more exams...
...that it will somehow all fall into place for them as it did in high school, where they were walking idols. But the Beaulieus and the Cuccias walk away disillusioned and disenchanted, swallowed up by an intellectual environment where passing and shooting aren't worth any points on an exam...
...hospitals to take on their patients. A customer joining an H.M.O. pays a set monthly fee?$47 for individuals, $116 for families in the Harvard Community Health Plan in Boston. That fee entitles the subscriber and his family to any medical services they may need, from a routine physical exam to open-heart surgery...