Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days when, known to his friends as "Mooney" or "Momo," he ran the Chicago underworld. His rise in the crime organization built by Al Capone began in his teens on Chicago's West Side, where he was born in 1908, the son of an immigrant grocer. A grade-school dropout, he joined the Chicago Mob as a wheelman, or getaway driver, then graduated to triggerman. Convicted of moonshining in 1939, he managed to turn his four-year sentence to his advantage by cultivating the friendship of Edward Jones, the policy king of Chicago's South Side...
Levy also believes that the oil exporters will raise prices steadily, perhaps by as much as 12% this year and 7% annually thereafter. By 1980 he expects the key grade of oil to be selling for $14.65 per bbl. v. $10.46 now. Even if oil prices drop temporarily, he contends, the decline would fuel a boom in the industrial world; this in turn would lead to such an increase in oil demand that OPEC could put prices right back up again...
...meaning raise) oil prices again when the freeze ends Sept. 30. The 13-nation cartel named no figure, but President Ford reacted to nervous speculation that the increase would amount to $2 to $4 per bbl., on top of the current price of $10.46 per bbl. for the key grade of crude. Such a boost, said the President, would be "totally without economic justification...
They had good reason to want to do well. The Summer School course was made up almost entirely of premedical students taking one of the courses that is required of anyone who wants to go to med school. A good grade in introductory physics is crucial...
...past the University reached Roxbury mainly through the Ed School's Center for Urban Studies and Master's degree in teaching programs: Ed School doctoral candidates taught Ed School student teachers in Roxbury, and the teachers in turn taught grade school children...