Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...From outside I think a lot of people think Harvard is elitist," says Charles G. Barnes '88 of Halifax, Nova Scotia. But he adds, "My father is a used car salesman. I didn't even think of applying until the end of grade...
...From outside I think a lot of people think Harvard is elitist," says Charles G. Barnes '88 of Halifax, Nova Scotia. But he adds, "My father is a used car salesman. I didn't even think of applying until the end of grade...
Many Harvard students come here planning to try a host of extracurriculars and maintain a grade point average that will win them spots in Harvard Med or jobs with Morgan Stanley in four years. Many Harvard students change those plans...
...public information for the Chicago public schools, "we're in step with all of that, and have been for years." Some educators, however, bristled at Bennett's suggestion that professionals from outside the teaching ranks -- business executives or retired military officers, for example -- might sometimes be brought in as grade school principals. Some critics also accused him of taking too rosy a ! view of the state of primary schooling and failing to address such questions as learning difficulties and the special problems of poor children. Complained Marc Tucker, executive director of the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy...
...industry-wide drive to cut costs, most of today's gold mines are surface, or open-pit, operations, a method used in copper and coal mining. The new excavations can take as long as eight years to start up, but then can handle thousands of tons of low-grade ore daily. The latest mines make use of a chemical technique called heap leaching to reduce costs. The procedure involves the spraying of crude ore with a cyanide solution that absorbs microscopic amounts of gold as it filters through the heaps of rock. After further processing, a low-grade bullion...