Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adopted South Vietnamese girls. A widowed physician with five sons, Tisdale met his second wife Betty in 1967 while he was an Army doctor in Viet Nam and she was bringing supplies to an orphanage at An Loc. Their oldest girls Lien, 7, and Xuan, 8, are in second grade in Columbus and doing well in school, though they still have some trouble with English. Because schools in South Viet Nam are so overcrowded and understaffed that they are forced to hold triple sessions starting at 7 a.m., "the kids are crazy about going to school here," says Pat Tisdale...
Missed Man. The first step in the Shula overhaul is "grading" films of last season's games. This is no cursory screening. Using an elaborate marking system, Shula and his six assistant coaches go over every play to grade the performance of each player. In reviewing last October's Miami-Cleveland game, for instance, Shula and his staff discovered 50 breakdowns in Dolphin defenses during the first half alone...
...Cambridge with her family 13 years ago. At that time she was nine years old and did not speak English. "We spoke Portuguese at home and when I got here there was no bilingual program," Barboza recalls. "I was nine years old but I was put in first grade with six-year-olds because I couldn't speak the language. I caught up finally, but I'm still a year behind." One of her sisters quit school altogether...
...than an inch or so of variation in the height of their identical-looking rumps. Uniformity is only partly the result of breeding. More important than genetics are the skillful methods used to turn every calf into a 1,100-lb., slightly blocky steer that will yield USDA Choice Grade Beef. The object is to remove as many variables from the beef-raising process as possible and replace them with more stable techniques copied from the assembly line. "If we do things a little bit better than the others," says Farr, "when we lose money, we'll lose less...
...statistically measured. By far the quaintest manifestation of this to date has been a rating system cobbled together by a young financial tipster named Willi Bongard, which recently appeared in Capital (a monthly German management magazine) and was reported in the Wall Street Journal. His artcom-pass purports to grade the world's 100 greatest artists of the '60s and '70s on a scale of relative fame and thus "objectively" determine whether their works are priced right or not. (This will come as news to those who did not suppose the "world" -by which Bongard apparently means...