Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...OPEC somehow sticks to its agreement and prices keep rising, heavily indebted petroleum-producing nations like Mexico and Venezuela would clearly enjoy a boon. The production cut would also help the oil-patch states in the U.S., which felt the pinch as the price of Texas-grade oil fell from about $27 per bbl. in January to a low of $9.75 in April. Consumers, though, would face more expensive heating oil and gasoline, and if prices continue to climb, the increase could rekindle inflation and eventually weaken the world economy...
...highly limited but highly visible and well-known crowd it attracts. If you graduated from Phillips Andover, Exeter, Groton, St. Paul's, Middlesex, Concord Academy or any New England prep school within the last five years, chances are that you'll run into someone from your eleventh grade English class waiting in line for ice cream in Oak Bluffs...
...competence. A South Bend, Ind., lawyer who is a former state legislator and son of a leader of the ultraconservative John Birch Society, Manion, 44, has never argued a case before a federal appeals court. The American Bar Association had found Manion "qualified," but that is its lowest passing grade...
...Fundamentalists are nothing if not determined. After being arrested in 1983 for trying to take her second-grade daughter out of class, Frost sued for false arrest and obtained a $70,000 judgment, which is now being appealed. Some Hawkins County children have been suspended for refusing to read the books. In Mobile, meanwhile, another group has brought a similar suit challenging the "secular humanist" teachings of the public schools. That case, backed by TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, a potential presidential candidate in 1988, is scheduled to go to trial this October...
Just as in that fourth grade joke, the play makes you feel as though you would rather laugh and be done with it, thereby absolving yourself from all responsibility for the perversions. But after it's over the thoughts it provoked remain...