Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harley-Davidson and has to settle instead for joyrides in his sporty blue Toyota or flashy Lamborghini, usually escorted by a caravan of scowling secret policemen. One of the few pleasures of office was his acceptance recently of the Chinese Nationalist Order of the Propitious Clouds, Great Special Cordon grade, bestowed as part of Taiwan's diplomatic offensive to garner anti-Peking votes in the United Nations. As one sign of his restricted power, Jean-Claude reportedly told some youths that Afro haircuts were all right with him-then had to retract the statement in a newspaper announcement...
...Gary needed them. A year ago, three out of every four of the 798 students in Banneker elementary school were reading below the national average for their grade. The pupils were all black and mostly from poor families. "We are at rock bottom," admitted Alfonso D. Holliday II, a black physician who headed the city's school board. At Holliday's prodding, the board turned over the entire school for three years to Behavioral Research Laboratories, a firm based in Menlo Park, Calif...
...window, and after Nixon got the nod, I wore a huge (it's still my largest button) "Our Nation Needs Nixon-Lodge" button that pulled holes in my sweater. I fell asleep in front of the television on election night and went to Miss Gross's fifth grade class the next morning with tears in my eyes...
...steered clear of politics for several years after that traumatic experience. Not until the fall of '64 did I don another button and this time it read "Keep Keating". We had fierce debates in our ninth grade class, which according to a straw poll we won over to our side. Yes, I kept Keating, but it was what I kept him from--winning, that is. Of course, I also had a Johnson button, but somehow we all lost that...
...managed by Sir Lew, ATV falls somewhere between a benevolent dictatorship and a family delicatessen. "There are two Lew Grades-the patriarch and the businessman," says one of his executives. "Ask for ?500 because of some personal crisis, and it's yours. Ask for ?500 extra on a budget-not a chance." Grade chooses new programs largely on instinct. His motto: "My tastes are the average person's tastes." After he approves a project-something he often does on the basis of a one-page description-he maintains that his creative staffers have a completely free hand. "Then...