Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...naturally invites comparison with Joe Namath. The comparison is invidious. He is warm, friendly and never overweening. Bench's confidence is the deeply ingrained type peculiar to young men who have always known exactly what they wanted to do in life. As he recalls: "In the second grade they asked us what we wanted to be. Some said they wanted to be a farmer. Some said rancher or cowboy. I said I wanted to be a ballplayer, and they laughed. In the eighth grade they asked the same question, and I said ballplayer and they laughed a little more...
...Parkers's precocious first-grade daughter. Julia, insisted on being interviewed, but with the precaution of a public figure she refused to comment except to say she "happy" about the appointments...
...restrictions fall short of Nix on's request for a flat moratorium on all busing until July 1, 1973 and a lasting ban against busing below the seventh grade. Yet he is expected to sign the bill...
...comeback is perhaps the most impressive in the history of pop music. Though his B-grade movies were financially successful, he was nearly eclipsed for most of the '60s by the rock groups that followed in his path, especially the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Then, sensing that the time was ripe, he made a live appearance in Las Vegas in 1969, returning again and again in the past three years and touring the country as well...
...open countryside, and the wind's force could also be tapped from tall towers anywhere. The big problem, again, is how to store the energy from this variable source. Other proven possibilities include harnessing the oceans' tides (a limited possibility at best), burning garbage as a low-grade fuel and, strangest of all, combining animal manure and carbon monoxide under heat and pressure to produce oil. Government researchers reckon that they can get three barrels of oil from every ton of manure, but the costs of collecting the stuff and hauling it to a plant may prove prohibitive...