Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harbor salmonella in their intestines and contaminate eggshells with their droppings, cracked eggs cannot be sold to retail markets. To pass state and federal inspections, intact ones must be washed with disinfectant before they are shipped. Nonetheless, all the food-poisoning cases blamed on eggs were traced to the grade-A variety, which had been washed and inspected for cracks. This finding has led researchers to suggest that the bacteria came from inside the eggs, not from the shells: the hens' ovaries might have been infected, and transmitted salmonella to the egg yolks before the shells were formed. The theory...
...passage for men, indicating that they, too, will take their place among the armchair major leaguers and couch potato/homerun hitters. Grownup men never seem to lose their fantasy of major league status, even if the closest they ever came was a hit with the bases loaded in second grade Little League...
...were initially formed in response to the social and political concerns that emerged during the Vietnam War," says Brad Connors, a member of the Association's Executive Board. "Male students needed passing grades from their T.A.'s to maintain a grade point average high enough to defer the draft. The T.A.'s had to take action around these issues, and the only power vehicle strong enough was unionism," Connors says...
Teaching Assistant Solidarity (TAS), which was formed last year, is considering the "grade strike" in response to the University Budget Committee's refusal to increase assistants' salaries...
...addition, TAS is sponsoring a referendum of all Yale graduate students to assess support for both the grade strike and a proposed union...