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Word: exam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Newly appointed police commissioner Perry L. Anderson received permission from the state yesterday to bypass some civil service exam requirements when he appoints six superintendents and deputy superintendents to help him run the department...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: Police Reorganization Would Give Anderson More Power, Bypass Traditional Officers | 10/8/1991 | See Source »

...have Supreme Court hearings at all? For more than 100 years, the committee did without them. And even after they began in 1925, there were nominees like William O. Douglas in 1939 who waited patiently to be questioned only to be sent home. But while this public bar exam has become de rigueur, its rules have changed from nomination to nomination, with Republicans and Democrats often contradicting themselves on what questions are appropriate. Some examples of Senators who condemn "litmus tests" at one hearing but brandish them at the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supreme Court: Judging the Judge | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...papers, sections and a final exam...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Shop 'Til You Drop | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

...took one computer science exam where a proctor watched me write an entire program. Writing in Pascal under deadline is difficult enough without an audience of University spies. I considered throttling the fellow...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: A Matter of Trust | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

William H. Bachman '92, former photo chair of the Crimson, would not be averse to installing hidden video cameras in exam rooms...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: A Matter of Trust | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

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