Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member Faculty Council's proposal bases all honors degree on grade point averages (GPA's) for all courses taken, and on departmental recommendations, rather than on the complex distribution requirements of the existing system...
...proposal also eliminates the "two-thirds rule" which currently requires honors students to achieve an honors grade (B-or higher) in at least two-thirds of their courses taken outside their field of concentration...
Last week's agreement largely settled a long-festering dispute over the price differentials between two major grades of oil, light and heavy. The light-crude producers like the United Arab Emirates needed lower official prices in order to remain competitive with less expensive heavy oil produced by countries like Kuwait and Venezuela. The group also took the symbolic step of abandoning Arab Light as the bench-mark price for all OPEC crude. Arab Light, once the world's most important oil, is now just another grade struggling in a world awash in oil. Admitted OPEC's current chairman, Subroto...
Jones added that the project's slogan, "Sew to Speak." may intimidate men or any people who do not feel confident with a needle and thread, but that all ages and sexes have contributed. Grodzina said that she has arranged for all the members of her son's third grade class to create a segment...
...legislation would count all courses towards the GPA, thereby eliminating the existing "two-thirds" rule, which requires students to achieve a grade above the honors level (B-or higher) in at least two-thirds of the courses taken outside their major...