Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been "insulted" by their lack of patronage influence with the Ford Administration, the President sounded unworried about such unrest among Reagan aides. Calmly puffing on his pipe, he observed that he had been a conservative Republican long before Reagan became one. Reagan was still playing second-banana roles in grade-B movies when Ford began pushing conservative principles, a Ford intimate explained unkindly...
...PROBABLY started laughing at the loser in grade school gym class--you know, the kid who could never do a somersault without slipping on his shoelaces on the uptake. He had banana peel appeal. By the time he hit high school he'd mastered the art of the somersault and maybe even a cartwheel but when it came to girls he'd usually slip off his social shoelaces just often enough to give the cool kids a yuk or two. Well, losers grow up and when they start making their first twenty or thirty thousand, people stop laughing at them...
...little, however, because most of the abuses occur far from the country elevators where they sell their crops. Grain is not officially inspected until it reaches New Orleans, Houston or other ports. There inspectors' employed by private agencies but licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture grade the grain and also certify that ships are clean enough to carry it in their holds. Altogether, USDA has licensed about 3,000 inspectors, who earn an average salary of $10,000 a year; their relatively modest incomes are often supplemented by overtime wages and seasonal bonuses. Since loading delays can cost...
...said grain inspectors often failed to notify the Food and Drug Administration of "deleterious substances" in grain destined for human consumption. Among them: poisonous mercury-treated kernels, rodent excreta and insect-damaged kernels. The report further charged that elevator operators were allowed to blend as much as 10% off-grade grain into a cargo bound for a foreign country...
...Maine-born Baxter headed for Wall Street but, after a bout with tuberculosis, turned to teaching history, first at Colorado College, later at Harvard. Brought to Williams as president in 1937, he transformed the college over the next 24 years from an undemanding educational country club where the average grade was D + to a serious meritocracy by increasing scholarship aid, strengthening the faculty and quadrupling the academic budget. During World War II he was historian for the Office of Scientific Research and Development, gathering material for Scientists Against Time, his 1947 Pulitzer prizewinning study of the wartime technological race between...