Word: flunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that are currently coming to grief. Says J. Ira Harris, a Chicago-based senior partner of Lazard Freres: "These are only midterm grades. The real grades arrive when you have an old-fashioned recession and see who survives." When that report card is in, more raiders are likely to flunk the game they touted so highly: survival of the fittest...
...similar manner, minority students are expected to do more than act just as students. In addition to academic work, they must present themselves at all times as a good example of their ethnic group (i.e., don't flunk out), educate peers about their cultural problems and be politically active in minority as well as non-minority affairs...
...onward, candidates would have to lavish time on these two unrepresentative states, massaging less than 2% of the population, while the other 98% of the electorate awaited the outcome. Without victory in at least one of these two rounds and a good showing in the other, a candidate would flunk the momentum test, lose his ability to attract contributors and watch his press coverage disappear...
This emphasis on protocol seems strange for a program designed to safeguard the security of embassies. The six-week course is given five times a year to unmarried volunteers who have served for at least two years in the Marines with an unblemished record. The flunk-out rate at Marshall Hall is 27%, including those who don't survive a final joint Marine-State Department screening board. Oddly enough, freshly minted Marine guards are generally sent to hardship posts like Moscow. The theory is that congenial embassies like Paris should be reserved for Marines who have completed an initial...
...Angst. "And to top it off, my roommate stole my girlfriend and then turned gay." What does Angst plan for the future? "I'm planning to take five high-level math courses, even though I failed the QRR. And Japanese--but I guess that all depends on whether I flunk out or not first...