Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most crucial items on the list are advanced military weapons that can offset the high-grade hardware delivered or promised to the Arab countries by the U.S.S.R. in 1974-75. These include at least two squadrons (totaling 36 planes) of the U.S.'s F-15 Eagle fighter. The 1,650-m.p.h. F-15 is the only aircraft that may be capable of outperforming the MIG-23 "Flogger," which threatens to be Israel's scourge in the air. Thus far the Soviet Union has delivered 70 MIG-23s to Syria, and others are on order in Iraq and Egypt...
...City University of New York spent $15 million last year on remedial English courses. Many of the students enrolling under an open-admissions policy are reading below the ninth-grade level...
...proficiency; nights are spent in small country inns. Wisconsin has two of the nation's finest rural bike trails: the Elroy-Sparta (30 miles long) and the Sugar River (23 miles), which are laid out on paved-over railbeds and are barred to cars and motorcycles; the grade never exceeds...
...operating at 90% of its old effectiveness even after a year of investigation and publicity. Few agree with that figure. Says one senior expert on the U.S. intelligence efforts: "Their analysis is not outstanding, and their covert operations are marginal. I'd say that their B-plus grade has slipped to B-minus...
...student has to do is make a reasonable showing on the final to maintain his grade in the course," he said...