Word: graded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good? How far do we go? It was a problem they were unequipped to handle. A song like "Friggin" in the Riggin'," a nautical round of masturbation and sodomy on a British man o'war which is sure to replace "Barnacle Bill the Sailor" on top of the fifth grade charts, has no business on this record. Part of the problem is the manifest influence of Malcolm MacLaren, the Sex Pistols' manager, who apparently drove Rotten from the band and tried to fill the vacuum. MacLaren is the same imbecile who tried to dress up the New York Dolls...
...annoyance of the state's teachers, James has ordered that achievement tests be given to students in public elementary schools and has suggested that a method be devised to grade teachers as well. His object is to pinpoint problem schools. James has also proposed diverting $70 million from the state's sprawling, 58-campus higher education system to elementary and secondary schools; Alabama now ranks 47th in the nation in expenditures per pupil...
...with a firm like the fictional Bass and Marshall is the reward for successful grade grubbing at a good law school, which John Jay Osborn Jr. wrote about with wit and feeling in his first novel, The Paper Chase. Hart, the hero of that book, "learned to love the law," an ironic expression of Harvard Law School students. He also learned to hate the way law students stabbed each other to succeed at it. In Osborn's new expose. The Associates, Samuel Weston, fresh from Harvard Law School, shares those passions. In Weston's lofty view, work...
...direct movies."' Carpenter's cunning proficiency, the workman like spit and polish of his low budget productions and his obvious debt to and affection for earlier movie-makers have tempted a number of critics to consider him a clever contemporary heir to several 40s and 50s directors whose exciting grade-B films have been sauvely generalized under the label film noir. Just now, with the success of Halloween, more careful critics are insisting that Carpenter is not as good as all that...
Each major oil company charges almost exactly the same wholesale price to all its franchised dealers. Exxon's price to its dealers throughout the U.S. varies by as little as tenths of a cent a gallon for the same grade of gas. But the wholesale price can differ drastically from company to company. In Houston, for example, Exxon sells unleaded gasoline to its service stations for 56.9? per gal. and Phillips for 65.1?, while Shell charges 61.8? for its premium unleaded. The oil companies have no control over the price at the pump. That is set by the individual...