Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hearst has little to lose by shaking things up. San Francisco has never been blessed with a top-grade daily newspaper, nor is the marketplace really competitive. In a joint-operating pact, signed in 1965, to guarantee the survival of both papers, the Examiner agreed to switch to afternoon publication. Since then the two papers have shared printing and distribution costs. They also split revenues, thus ensuring that the Examiner will have a healthy bottom line despite running a poor second to the Chronicle...
...shipping firms. But it also became the world's largest commercial lender to farmers, who are now under severe financial pressure. Concedes Stephen McLin, a BankAmerica senior vice president: "Our credit standards were not the greatest." The bank wrote off $1.6 billion worth of loans last year. Other low-grade credits are still on the books, forcing the bank to set aside an additional $591 million as a loan- loss reserve...
...classes are geared to ninth grade and up, but for the two-thirds of the prisoners who are operating below the high school level, teachers sometimes use Apple computers to provide reinforcement and practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, Ryder says...
...read at a fourth-grade level." Mallory looks pleased again. "I taught him myself, by my own special method. If he don't know a word, I make him write it ten times. I make him read a book every night, until he's got it. I've been doing this for years. But Michael's teachers tell me not to teach...
...With a song called "No Fat Beaver," it's obvious where this group's sympathies lie. Milo Auckerman is 10 times snottier than lead Violent Femme Gordon Gano on his worst day. Auckerman elicits the sort of admiration I felt for the kid who sat behind me in fourth grade, a sedate youth who poured urine all over the teacher's desk. This record has just a smidgeon of discipline which makes it cohesive. After all, snottiness is what rock and roll is all about...