Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration has singled out dairy-price supports as a grade A example of waste, only to collide with the National Milk Producers Federation, one of the most influential lobbies in Washington. The dairy-support system that the two sides are quarreling over will cost $2.1 billion during the current fiscal year, almost twice as much as all other commodity supports combined...
...picture Bill Murray, back in eighth grade, before his acne cleared up, sitting in the back row in Social Studies, spitting out gags in a rat-a-tat style calculated to send the teacher home in tears. Now Murray is grown up, and now the whole world is his classroom...
...face of these claims, Israeli officials still adamantly asserted that Iraq had planned to build bombs. The main evidence: Baghdad's insistence on being supplied with weapons-grade uranium and the existence of the Italian hot-cell lab capable of extracting plutonium. But Umberto Colombo, chairman of the Italian Nuclear Energy Commission, said last week that producing plutonium in tangible amounts would require extra equipment and technology. Said he: "It is absolutely impossible for these facilities we are supplying to be used to make plutonium for bombs...
Technically, there is little doubt among experts that the Tammuz reactor, with modifications, could have produced bomb-grade plutonium. But the burden of proof that Iraq planned to do so still rested squarely on the Israelis...
DIED. Zerna Sharp, 91, former first-grade teacher in La Porte, Ind., who created the concept for the Dick and Jane textbooks that for more than four decades helped teach American schoolchildren to read ("See me run. See Spot run. Oh, oh! This is fun."); in Frankfort, Ind. Sharp's simple, repetitive prose telling of an archetypal middle-class family with its dog, Spot, and cat, Puff, came under fire from feminists in the early 1970s for stereotyping Jane as subordinate to Dick. "It never bothered the children," replied Sharp. "That's all an adult's viewpoint...