Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those not unemployed usually find themselves in low-grade jobs with little prospect for advancement. Blacks are ubiquitous in such lower status and low-paying jobs as bus conductor, railway porter and hospital orderly...
Lesley is initially an appealing character; proud, self-sufficient, wonderful in her precociousness. In first grade, she calls the teacher a "dumb fuck;" she extends that assessment coolly to all surrounding people and events. She stands slouching remotely from everything, alternately coy or arrogant, ready always with the correct line or manner. There is something arresting about her decisive mastery of otherwise untenable situations...
Mayman calls herself "a great extracurricular person" who has never made a commitment to any particular interest. Many of her interests are musical--she studied piano for 12 years, has taken guitar lessons since 9th grade, and plays the lute. When she studied in Germany she and a banjo player put together a series of concerts and lectures on American folk music. While working at Tanglewood for the BSO she frequented the shop of a violin maker because she enjoyed its atmosphere of glue pots and violin parts. However Mayman does not own one of the musical appliances which most...
Thomas F. Vacha, supervisor of Grounds for the Department of Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday that some parts of the University recycle high grade paper on a limited basis, but that there are presently no programs to recycle waste from entire buildings...
Harvard presently pays $8 per ton to dispose its waste and can receive $5 per ton for office grade paper waste that is recycled. Once an estimated $2,300 is paid. for separate wastebasket containers and the installation of a compacter-dumpster, the program should not cost Harvard more than it is presently spending for waste disposal, Merrill said...