Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation for the first quarter of 1972 would have been 4% or 5%; most likely, inflation will instead be kept at about 3% for the first quarter." Adds Arthur Okun, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists and adviser to several Democratic presidential contenders: "So far, I grade Phase II at a solid...
...Commandos and the Fox, contestants had not necessarily acted out their ideas; all they were asked to suggest were projects that caused no serious harm. In fact, of all the entries, published this week in a paperback book, by far the most violent comes from a fourth-grade class in Wilmette, Ill.: "Kidnap the presidents of the big car companies and put them in a room and for 30 seconds turn their car pollution on them." It did not win a prize...
...with all his banks, Parsons invested B.O.C.'s funds heavily in low-grade 20-year municipal securities. Though they then paid high yields and bolstered bank earnings, they were far tougher to sell than the lower-paying short-term Treasury notes that most banks buy. To attract more money, B.O.C. made what other bankers considered risky loans to oil prospectors, restaurants and black self-help groups. Still, during the first five years of Parsons' management, B.O.C. assets tripled to $1.5 billion and its earnings quintupled to $11 million...
...cent of Humphrey voters considered themselves "working class," 64 per cent of the people who voted for Wallace did so. Moreover, 40 per cent of Wallace's supporters held "manual occupation" jobs as opposed to 36 per cent for Humphrey and 28 per cent for Nixon. Finally, among the grade school educated, a good test for how the disinherited are voting, the swing away from the Democrats between 1960 and 1968 was only three per cent; the swing away from the GOP, 12 per cent. This clearly does not represent a swing to the Nixon right...
...report also says that the viewers who give the tube their undivided attention are for the most part preschoolers. By the time they reach first grade, children begin to wean themselves away from television, not to return with real concentration until they have small children of their...