Word: exam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone else I knew in the class. I came back from Harvard thinking of myself as an ex-soldier, a returned veteran of infantry combat, and two years later I had been transformed into something that in reality I was, a sophomore at Harvard. There were times, exam periods for instance, when I could barely remember having endured the war. The war, the most endlessly earnest, realistic experience of my life, had become fantasy. Harvard was the reality. Harvard owned me now. Harvard had won. She had beaten...
...response to a widespread feeling that the shocking number of lawyers involved in the nation's recent political scandals called for much greater attention to legal ethics. The test results bore out the feeling. The examiners report that 44.2% of the 2,313 aspiring attorneys who took the exam last February got fewer than 28 questions right and thus flunked the ethics section. That is roughly the same percentage that failed the exam as a whole; nonetheless, the examiners were shocked, since it was considered a "simple test." Those who failed the ethics section will have to retake...
...bright eyes make him seem younger than 37, and his subdued demeanor seems more appropriate to a new grad student than to the nation's leading historian of Vietnam. So the students continue talking as he erases the board--careful not to touch the now sacred directions of an exam long ago, which commanded students to "Do Problem 2a only." Finally, he turns, still unnoticed, and faces his audience...
...course will be given again next year, but there will be no exam and, Gould says, there will be an attempt to clear up the confusion about "A"s and "B"s by establishing clearer requirements for each...
...Eglin Air Force Base until the thousands of refugees are processed by the U.S. Government and ushered into American life. Like last week's first arrivals, many of the refugees will undoubtedly be bewildered by the impersonal routine of the camps. They will be given a medical exam, fingerprinted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, issued a Social Security card, tested for their job skills and command of English, and interviewed about a U.S. sponsor. Without one, no Vietnamese can leave the base...