Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...programs, which bring it into direct contact with the population. The most successful of these has been a series of lectures on subjects such as Polish history and culture that are being conducted in churches throughout the country. Among the key targets: the young, some of whom were in grade school when Solidarity was founded; and peasants, who make up 43% of the population. Largely conservative by nature, Polish farmers can, according to the opposition, nonetheless be moved by arguments showing that state mismanagement was mainly responsible for the disastrous decline in the country's agriculture in the late...
...agreement is the first requiring a company to upgrade a rejected applicant's skills. Stressed will be English, math, reading and keyboard training, all with the goal of raising competency to at least the ninth-grade level. Participants will be paid the minimum wage of $3.35 an hour while learning, and some of the classes will be at night so that trainees now working elsewhere can attend. At the same time, those employment tests that gave the applicants such a hard time will be reviewed with an eye to making them more job related...
...found my mind drifting to my child." But now Cortez finds it much easier to concentrate on her job. Each weekday morning Kimberly, 2, rises at 6:30 and accompanies her mother as she drives to work at Wang Laboratories in Lowell, Mass. Near by, in a former grade school leased by Wang, the toddler spends the day learning, playing and napping with 215 other youngsters. Says her mother: "I feel very comforted. Kimberly already knows her ABCs, she sings songs and she's very sociable." Mother and daughter even meet every day at lunchtime...
...Sears catalog mixed the art of salesmanship with a little bunkum. "We Aim to Illustrate Honestly and Correctly Every Article," Sears stated around the turn of the century. But that did not stop the company from claiming that its goods were "celebrated," "of the finest quality," "thoroughly high grade" not to mention "cheapest...
...jelly for $6. Clothing included men's wool worsted suits for $6.50 and ladies' "walking and bicycle suits" for $6.75, topped off by a "very stylish" $2.95 hat. There were blacksmith's tools, farm implements and a vehicle section featuring phaetons, surreys, carriages and a "top-grade" buggy...