Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family whose mother died young, Madonna has always seemed to be looking for a way out. She studied dance, tried ballet and, by the time she left home in her late teens, had already starred in her first movie. It was a Super-8 project directed by an eighth-grade classmate in which Madonna had an egg cooked on her tummy. She can currently be seen, under somewhat more professional auspices, in Warner Bros.' Vision Quest; Orion's Desperately Seeking Susan is scheduled for imminent release. There are no announced plans for the egg epic, although at the current rate...
...recent months, local governments may have come to appreciate better the problems afflicting their North American neighbor: coca abuse has begun to spread across South America. The greatest culprit is a brown, pennies-cheap cigarette made of an addictive low-grade coca paste. Often known as brutos, the cigarettes contain impurities that have not been processed out, including caustic soda, sulfuric acid and kerosene. The cheap high, once favored only by teenage street kids, has now hooked a significant cross-section of society...
...make the point, the 1,500 men of Colombia's U.S.-supported antinarcotics squad persevered in their search-and-destroy missions and, for a time, scored one spectacular victory after another. In early December, for example, they intercepted more than 550 kilos of high-grade cocaine, packed and readied for shipment at a rambling ranch known as Villa Julia, and flushed it down a sewer in nearby Medellin. Four days later, in northern La Guajira province, squad members came upon 1,054 kilos of pure coke that had been stashed in lunch boxes, leather pouches and even official-looking CARE...
...other benefits. The soft-spoken chief is not shy about his accomplishments. "I'd give myself an A," he says. That seems about right. When Houston power brokers gathered for lunch a year ago and his name came up, everyone at the table gave him the same grade...
...Council also recommended that the Faculty be allowed to take the students GPA levels without grandparenting, in case grade in flation a large increase in the number of students receiving honors grade or the Faculty decides to notify the number of students graduating with honors, Marquand said. He added that the new legislation is not expected to decrease the current 70 percent of students graduating with honors...