Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NCAA approached its 75th anniversary last year, problems within college football's high-pressured, big-money environment continued to mount. Recruiting violations became extensive; the percentage of college football players actually receiving degrees was atrociously low at many schools; and, falsified grade transcripts from rinky-dink junior colleges became the new vogue for athletes to satisfy academic eligibility requirements...
...high-pressure, big money environment of college football has produced a long series of recruiting violations, an atrociously low percentage of athletes who actually receive degrees, a pattern of falsified grade transcripts to allow athletes to maintain eligibility, and a host of other problems. So what was the NCAA's response last week to this growing list of disgraces? The group turned to its Ivy League members--which come closest to joining education and sport in a mutually beneficial alliance--and threw them out of the game's top division...
...Interior Department aides should refrain from "wasting Government money by talking to national conservation leaders." He also requested, in a move of dubious legality, a list of department employees who are members of environmental groups. Although the Secretary might award himself an A for effort and many developers grade him A for achievement, others flunk him cold for his insensitive attitude toward conservation and his megawatt manner in dealing with controversy. Because it is not yet clear if his policies will improve the economy or endanger the environment, or both, he gets...
...came to his profession without formal training. The son of Chinese immigrants, he grew up in Bangkok, dropped out of high school after the tenth grade and joined a rock band as a bass guitarist. At 23 he left rock for stone, becoming an apprentice at an antique store...
...acre ranch high in the chaparral country of California's Santa Ynez mountains. Walters decked herself out in a western-style suede outfit to match Reagan's outdoorsy duds. In the one-hour ABC special, Reagan allowed that he never got more than a C grade in high school or college and that when he was Governor of California, he would leave the office at 5 p.m., but with a briefcase full of work. Reagan took Barbara and his dogs Victory and Millie out for a spin in his battered 1963 Jeep. Inadvertently, he hauled up close...