Word: grades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Federal officials, who depend almost entirely on the oil and gas companies for estimates of reserves, must contend with wildly varying figures, some of them just high-grade guesses. The problem is a serious obstacle to policymaking. For example, the U.S. Geological Survey-working from raw oil-company data and lacking funds to drill sufficient test holes-estimates that undiscovered resources of natural gas lying under water on the outer continental shelf may be as high as 655 trillion cu. ft., which at current consumption rates for gas would meet U.S. needs for more than 30 years. But then again...
Fitzbibbons got off to a shaky start when his 4-iron rolled through the second green and he had quickly lost two strokes to par. He came back with a charging birdie on the par five 5th when he negotiated a tricky grade to sink his five-foot putt...
Harvard began a reappraisal back in 1974, when Henry Rosovsky, dean of the faculty, issued a gloomy letter to his professors. The B.A. degree was becoming little more than a "certificate of attendance," he charged, while grade-conscious students were choosing easy courses "out of primitive self-interest." He ended by calling for a total re-evaluation of undergraduate education...
...solution to the U.S. energy shortage. Not so. Apparently frightened about the possibility of reactor byproducts falling into the hands of irresponsible governments or bomb-building terrorists, Carter has already chopped $200 million from Ford's leftover budget for the development of advanced breeder reactors, which produce bomb-grade plutonium even as they produce energy. The Schlesinger program will call for a modest acceleration in the building of present fission reactors and will place great emphasis on safety precautions. But it will also call for a standardized design intended to speed construction. Owing to a maze of regulations...
Under Fire. To make sure the film was as accurate as possible, Producer Lord Grade consulted experts from the Vatican to the Leo Baeck Rabbinical College of London and the Koranic School at Meknes, Morocco. But the film nonetheless came under ideological fire from Protestant right-wingers, led by Bob Jones III, president of South Carolina's Bob Jones University. Zeffirelli had told an interviewer from Modern Screen that he would portray Jesus as "an ordinary man-gentle, fragile, simple," and Jones leaped to the conclusion that the portrayal would deny Christ's divine nature. Without seeing...