Word: grades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secret efforts to influence political events abroad have been widely criticized, its more basic function of supplying reliable intelligence has been faulty too. TIME'S Talbott and Nelan asked top officials in the White House, State Department and Defense Department who regularly receive CIA analyses to grade the agency's work. The report card...
...Government Department has gotten a widespread reputation for tough grading--in part because of the outspoken stance of its chairman, Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, against creeping grade inflation--and last fall the department took a step to ease the burden on its concentrators. Mansfield wrote a cover letter to graduate schools explaining that Gov majors might have lower grades than the rest of the College, but that it wasn't necessarily their fault...
...Faculty Council took steps this spring to end inequities in grading, but did not do anything about grade inflation, that awful specter...
...STUDENT AT M.I.T. David Bryan, 22, an expert in cryobiology, has specialized in freezing rats' hearts and achieved a 4.9 grade average out of a possible 5 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, famed incubator of top scientists. Now he wants to go to Harvard Medical School in the fall. Says Bryan: "I've made a decision about what I want to do for the rest of my life. I like to be with people more than just being in a lab all day." The tall, lanky graduate does not smoke-either cigarettes or marijuana-seldom drinks beer...
Barbara-whose parents never went beyond third grade-will begin graduate work in African history this fall at Northwestern, where she has won a two-year fellowship. Reginald, meanwhile, will continue with his architecture program at Howard until he can transfer to Chicago. They are unhappy about the separation. "We're partners, working partners," says Barbara...