Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obsessed most of my first year with doing well. I didn't just want to get 'A's; I wanted the highest mark in each of my courses. It worked. In both math and chemistry, I got the highest grade of all 350 or so students in each class. I never did any of the fun things, or had any of the wild times that you may be reading about in other essays in this issue. Why was I working so hard? Why didn't I go to parties or just hang out? Why would I tell my friends Friday...
...Jicarilla oil and gas wells, which total about $20 million annually, plus $108 million of other financial assets. After Standard & Poor's officials met with members of the tribal council last month, the credit rating firm gave the bonds an A rating. That is two notches below the top grade of AAA, but higher than the BBB+ rating given bonds issued by Chicago or New York City...
...hear people talk down at the cafe, you'd think we were being invaded by hostile aliens from a grade-B science fiction movie. A new brood of 13-year cicadas, estimated to be in the millions, has crawled up out of the ground in a big part of the country's midsection. Its members are trying their wings, singing like crazy and mating in a very public way. In a few weeks they will die off and be gone, but for now they are quite the topic of conversation...
...April, Turner offered CBS shareholders a no-cash package of low-grade bonds, which he valued at $175 a share. Wall Streeters, however, estimated the Turner proposal was worth only about $130 a share. "The present Turner bid has been pre-empted," concluded Drexel Burnham Analyst John Reidy...
...told, they speak 38 different languages. Throughout the New York public school system, there are 113,000 such children, most of them helped along by 2,100 bilingual teachers. But P.S. 89 is singular. There, just before the end of the school year, Ann Pryor was guiding her second-grade English-language class through the basics. She asked each child the salient question, and in a dozen different accents, they answered. "I come from Japan," said Kazuko Hiraga. "I come from Afghanistan," said Omar Norzyai. "I come from China," said Thomas Chuang. "They try so hard," Pryor says later. "They...