Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Encounter, and you can chart a child's hope that whoever is out there will be just like him: small and smooth and smart and cuddly. Track the Lost Ark's Raiders, and you will discover the thrill of escape that whets the imagination of every fifth-grade Indiana Jones...
Indeed, Ted was so conscientious that on occasion, he even got early dismissals from school so that he could arrives at the IAB in time for afternoon tipoffs. Apparently, as for as this sixth-grade sports fan is concerned, no sacrifice is too great...
...things I have never lost." Says Washington Correspondent Hays Gorey: "It was obtained so long ago I would have to resort to carbon dating to determine when. But I have never forgotten the number." Says Boston Reporter Lisa Towle: "I recall the day my sixth-grade teacher sat the home-room class down and told us it was time to apply for Social Security cards. I felt so proud, though still not understanding the significance...
...Even if it were to keep the Kremlin at arm's length, an Argentina humiliated by the outcome of the Falklands crisis could be dangerously destabilizing to the region. Buenos Aires has not signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and operates a reactor capable of making weapons-grade plutonium. Question: Would a vengeful regime build the Bomb? Would it threaten...
Academic probation is Harvard's equivalent of your seventh grade grammar teacher's third dirty look: "One more problem from you, junior, and it's out the door." Short of requiring withdrawal, the College can do nasty things like kick people off of sports teams and force their by-lines out of undergraduate publication. On paper it all sounds rather dire, but who can take the administrators seriously when they're threatening to boot one out of every nine people in a single class? More importantly, are students going to learn anything about computers as a result of all this...