Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drives is a combination of pay and pride. The average starting salary of a secretary at Harvard, for instance, is between $107 and $38, while the average salary for all Boston secretaries is $152. Secretaries at Harvard complain that it is hard to advance through the University's three-grade secretarial pay scale...
...summer between junior and senior year, he took law boards, scoring over 700. When he returned in the fall, he applied to the top law schools, including Harvard. Both his board score and his grade point hovered above the arbitrary level set by Harvard in order to gain admittance. Things were looking...
Note: To meet the basic requirement students must take one full or two half-courses in each area for a letter-grade...
...soon discovered that most of my classmates were certified low-grade morons, barely able to read, much less memorize and deliver a lengthy presentation to total strangers. Fred Fadukas, the bloke on my right, looked like something out of Famous Monster Magazine--truely grotesque--with a speech impediment to boot. He did not return after the second class. Betty Sue Bumptious, a 250-pound beauty, was worse. Couldn't even remember her own name: When the supervisor asked her to recite her speech, she hadn't even memorized the first line, and couldn't manage to repeat it when...
...middleaged, a figure of high reputation among his colleagues, now disaffected with bomb making and no longer at work as a nuclear physicist. He directs an ecological-research firm. He and McPhee travel about the country. He shows the author unguarded trucks rumbling down rural highways, loaded with weapons-grade uranium. They see manufacturing plants where enough fissionable material to blow up Manhattan could be stolen by one armed and determined man, or carried off bit by bit, undetected, by one unarmed employee...