Word: graded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Knockout is just such a joker of a play. A movie in embryo and autopsy, it contains elements of every grade-Z fight picture ever made that was not worth its weight in popcorn. Give Playwright Louis La Russo II credit for knowing his Italo-American dropouts, fighters with four-letter mouths. He plants neon stickers on his key figures. The good guy (Danny Aiello) is Over-the-Hill. The bad guy (Edward O'Neill) is Below-the-Belt. There is an English Eliza Doolittle (Margaret Warncke) for whose favors they stage a slam-bang finale. Too bad someone...
...also would have been Hyland's final grade. He was about to resign from the Government to take a job helping his old boss, Henry Kissinger, write his memoirs. *However, technically the U.S. would have had the right of MlRVing the Minuteman with seven warheads, since the missile had been tested with that number on two occasions during the Ford Administration...
GIVEN THE INEVITABILITY of an administrative response to the 300 per cent increase in sick outs over the last five years, the plan to place an asterisk after a grade received for a make-up exam is a reasonably good...
...Council's solution addresses only the superficial issue of abuse of the medical excuse option. It fails to tackle the underlying reason for the trend: increasing grade anxiety among students, especially those competing for admission to professional schools. Marking transcripts will not ease pre-professional pressures, but instead only add to the worries of students...
OPEC'S production cutbacks are aggravating the operational headaches. To begin with, not every refinery can process every grade of crude. From high-quality Nigerian oil that contains almost no sulfur at all to the heavy goo that glubs from the ground in Kuwait, petroleum covers a wide range of viscosities and weights. But not all refineries can handle every kind of oil, and as OPEC's squeeze has intensified, supplies of light oil used for gasoline have tightened...