Word: grades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Compiled by researchers at Stanford and the University of Connecticut, the report found that most faculty members also believe students entering college are less well-prepared than in the past, and that grade inflation is a rising trend...
Faculty at the higher rated schools--including Harvard and Yale--said that entering students evidenced no decline in academic competence though grade inflation is still cited as a major problem by this group of academics...
They said grade inflation can be partially attributed to increased competition for acceptance to graduate schools, where other applicants have been attending schools in which grade inflation is even more pronounced...
...care what literature they put on the lunch lines anymore, but I suppose I do care if I know that I'm paying for it and that all I'm doing by eating lunch is paying for it again. I took Nat Sci 128 for a [decent] grade; I know that not all additives are bad. But I also know that most of the food served around here doesn't usually look or taste all that great, either. Why not eliminate the printing costs and serve french fries more often...
None of the cuts are official to the point of showing up in written long-term contracts. Instead, the discounting is being done on the relatively volatile spot market, which accounts for a small part of overall sales. So far, the discounts have not spread to the most popular grade of oil, light crude, which is used for gasoline. Limited though they are, the price reductions have badly hurt Egypt, which needs all the money that it can get from sales of its heavy-grade oil. Venezuela, also a big producer of heavy oil, is attempting to buck the trend...