Word: graded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party was expected to kick off about 5 p.m., but one-half hour and 45 demi-tuna fish sandwiches later, the great trumpeter still hadn't shown up. Pretty soon President Bok began to lose patience with the avant-grade jazz movement...
...deadline, the AST was still $150,000 short. A branch of Bloomingdale's kicked in 10 per cent of a day's receipts, and an electronics corporation contributed $15,000. But most of the money came in small donations, including a box of 89 pennies collected in a local grade school. As a result, the drive netted a total of $307,654. This came too late to allow the usual spring season of performances for school students, but it did assure that at least a 22nd summer season could be mounted...
...film corporation. In socialist Burma there remain 100 privately owned companies. But only ten have their own cameras, and the government restricts the import of film. All of Burma's movie houses have been nationalized. South Korea produced 94 films last year. But the melodramas were so low grade that they are never likely to be seen outside of the country, or even very widely inside. In fact, Korean audiences are so turned off by movies that 35 cinemas have closed down in the past two years...
...figure on a blue background representing a man in a wheelchair, is posted on the memorial and has been appearing on a growing number of buildings around the U.S. Wherever it appears, the symbol means that the structure has been built or remodeled so that ramps (with a maximum grade of 8.3%) are in place at stairs or curbs, doors are wide enough (at least 32 in.), knobs, buttons or drinking fountains are within reach of the wheelchairbound, and toilets and urinals are at convenient heights...
...tragedies like Bill's are old hat. Everyone knows all about the so-called new mood on campus--grade consciousness, the pre-professional crunch and ruthless competition--and what it drives some students to do. College administrators seek more than ever to downplay the morbid and to be more tolerant of the ethical transgressions (Harvard, for instance, readmitted this year a student who last year forged a series of medical school and scholarship recommendations). The media, on the other hand, has feasted on this emerging spectacle; few major publications have failed to make a big splash out of some variation...