Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that old reality or in a scrubbed-up version of a turn-of-the-century world that feeds the nation's nostalgia for what it fondly-if erroneously-believes were simpler, better times. Setting aside the animated features, the typical Disney movie today is static, overreliant on low-grade verbal humor and ill-conceived comic situations-cars and chimpanzees that are almost human, which is more than you can say for the people who appear in support of them...
Baker: Why is that not a presidential-grade decision? Why, of all decisions that might be made by the man, the candidate for President of the United States, why should he not be permitted to make that decision? What is it that arrogates that authority to someone else...
...Students can sue and be sued. Colleges will be freer to take students to court in cases of vandalism or disruption without involving the parents as middlemen. But the schools are also more vulnerable to legal action by students protesting against professors who skip classes or grade arbitrarily, or administrators who close buildings as a result of demonstrations by other students. Says Patricia Rueckel, vice president for student development at Georgetown: "The fact that they can constantly bring us into small-claims court is kind of scary...
...time, few things in Greece seemed to need reform and purity more than the Greek Orthodox Church itself, which encompasses-at least nominally-97% of the population. Churches, schools and chaplaincies were some 3,000 priests short. The available ones, most of whom had never gone past the sixth grade, were paid as little as $33 a month. The conservative and antiquated hierarchy-most bishops were over 70 -paid little attention to either social ills or the disaffected young. In addition, some of the supposedly celibate bishops had been named in scandals involving sexual misconduct as well as gambling...
MANY HAVE attributed the injustice of the system to the concept of the heterogeneous House, which demands that each House have a certain percentage of men and women, of students majoring in the three areas, of the different grade ranks, and of public and private scholars...