Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reserved for waste salt water, which is a byproduct of the normal production process. Then the hot oiler, usually someone hired to drain the saltwater tank, pumps out the crude and carries it away. He trucks it to an oil reclaimer, whose business is buying and processing sludgy, low-grade oil. The hot oiler sells his load to the reclaimer for about $15 per bbl., well below the legitimate market price...
About 60 per cent of the faculty voted in favor of adding three grades--A minus, B plus, and B minus--to the grading system, in an attempt to check grade inflation...
Jerome J. Pollitt, professor of classics, and author of the grade amendment, said this week he "proposed the measure two years ago because 80 per cent of the grades at Yale...
...Most of us feel this is a gentle compromise allowing the faculty to give grades more equitably while taking grade inflation as a given," Apfel said...
...There's quite a bit of antagonism and disappointment among students over this issue," Meyers said, adding. "I think it's likely to cause grade grubbing and increased grade consciousness...