Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most of the last three semesters, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) has kicked around a proposal intended to curb grade inflation by adding the median grade and size of the class to the transcript...
Theoretically, this proposal would help with grade inflation by encouraging a renormalization of the grade curve and the general return of the B and B- grades (the average grade at Harvard right now is a B+). It might also help students in the sciences, where grades are generally lower than in the humanities...
When Harvard students hear of this and other proposals to curb grade inflation, most ask nervously about the timetable, hoping no changes will affect them...
...problems got no sympathy in Washington, where he has long been considered too soft on drug traders. The State Department dismissed the storm in Bogota as an "internal" issue, but Republican Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, demanded that Colombia be "decertified," or given a failing grade, for its efforts in the narco wars. If the certification ruling, due March 1, goes against Colombia, repercussions on preferential trade and credit arrangements would be severe. The U.S. government was pleased last summer when the Colombians scored a coup by jailing six of the seven top Cali barons. However...
Natchez himself began at the tender age of nine, taking advantage of the free musical lessons the school district offered to his fourth-grade class. But he didn't get serious about it for another four years, when a new teacher revealed a side of music Natchez hadn't seen before...