Word: grades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will never significantly protest evil actions of their government and their corporations, 20 years from now. It's too cozy to sit on Wall Street with a fat salary, so why risk your job by challenging official acts of injustice then, when you won't even risk a silly grade in order to protest this...
...originally proposed. The legislation he put forward last year in response to his own declaration of a "moral equivalent of war" actually called for the continued regulation of gas prices, whereas the final version is a complex formula for gradual deregulation by 1985. Even its supporters gave it a grade of C minus; opponents flunk it outright...
Test results have shown that one-third of the freshmen at state colleges in New Jersey are almost illiterate. So the state senate passed a bill requiring all public high school students to demonstrate at least a ninth-grade level of proficiency in reading, writing and arithmetic before qualifying for a state-approved diploma. Then Senator Francis X. Herbert, who doubles as a high school English teacher, discovered that the senators could also use some drill in the fundamentals. The bill misspelled explicit as explict, minimum as minmum and remediation as remediaton. Conceded Sponsor Matthew Feldman: "Sure...
...dropped the formal "we" and the intellectualized addresses of Paul VI, and inaugurated an era of laughter. In his last audience last week, John Paul interviewed young Daniele Bravo by microphone while 10,000 people listened in. John Paul: "Do you always want to be in the fifth grade?" Daniele: "Yes, so that I don't have to change teachers." Laughter. John Paul: "Well, you are different from the Pope. When I was in the fourth grade I was worried about making it to the fifth." Laughter again...
...addition to folks at the Golden Arches, Baskin-Robbins, the International House of Pancakes and Hamburger Hamlets have all been foiled by a Los Angeles campaign to enforce honesty in eateries: it is now against the law, for example, to describe a nondairy product as "cream," or lower-grade beef as "prime." Like truth inadvertising and truth in lending, truth in menus is catching on. Chicago issues its own menu guidlines: "'Baked ham' should not have been boiled." Councilwoman Carol Greitzer of NEw York City has introduced a bill of fair fare that would outlaw such representations...