Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...valued your article "Getting Tough with Teens" [June 8]. As a ninth-grade English teacher, I see my students five hours a week, compared with the 133 hours when the teen-ager is beyond the authority of the school. I'm pleased that Toughlove recognizes some parental responsibility for the remainder of my students' time...
...both temperate and decisive in dealing with a major foreign policy flap, responding cohesively to fundamental American interests in the region and the world. The result was some fancy footwork by Reagan and his men that earned them, though things might still turn sour, better than a passing grade...
...separate tiny amounts of plutonium from spent uranium fuel. Because plutonium can be used to make nuclear weapons its possible production at the Tammuz site was central to the Israelis justification for the raid. The Iraqi-French contract required delivery of 70 kg of 93% enriched U-235 a grade and amount of uranium well suited for making nuclear weapons. In addition the 70-MW Tammuz reactor was 14 times as powerful as most research reactors, and Israeli physicists contend it could have been modified to readily produce weapons-grade plutonium...
...would be to buy enriched uranium from a nuclear nation as part of a deal for a reactor designed to burn such weapons-grade fuel. The reactor Iraq acquired from France would have used 93% enriched U-235. During the course of operation, some of this material might be skimmed off for nuclear weaponry, although that would be a risky proposition. The IAEA inspectors might spot the diversion, or some of the foreign technicians at the site might blow the whistle on the schemers...
...into three cubicles, quietly working on a correspondence curriculum supplied by Illinois' Christian Liberty Academy. The curriculum covers traditional subjects from a religious perspective, and includes a special Bible course and "truth packs" criticizing such "liberal values" as equality for women, socialism, abortion and premarital sex. The academy grades schoolwork and issues report cards through the mail. On the nationally standardized Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, which measure linguistic and mathematical ability, the Rushton girls, who have studied at home for the past two years, scored two to three years above their grade levels...