Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year. The three-hour exam, divided into math and verbal sections, focused on students' ability to cope with such simple tasks as filling out job applications and reading labels on canned goods. The exam, said the state testing director, Thomas Fisher, was "very, very basic" -seventh-or eighth-grade level...
Coach Carole Kleinfelder said Sunday that Brown out-rebounded the Harvard women by approximately a two-to-one margin. Harvard managed to scrape up a paltry 19 rebounds, and obviously that kind of figure just doesn't make the grade against any half-decent team, which Brown amply proved itself to be. In addition, shooting was sub-par, and was limited to a very few people...
...Saunier, 31, human resources director of the papermaking Mead Corp. in Dayton, who won applause from all sides for her cool, impartial chairing of the conference's fourth session. In her private life, Saunier, who began using Robert's Rules of Order when she was in sixth grade, also offers a new image of the modern woman: when she agreed to move from Columbus to Dayton for the Mead job, her husband Fred decided to transfer as well...
...pension trusts and mutual funds. So far they have done well: a study by Salomon Bros, shows that in the first nine months of 1977 one group of Yankee bonds returned actual gains (interest plus price appreciation) of 5% to 8.7%, v. a 2.3% gain on competitive longterm, high-grade U.S. corporate bonds. The stock market suffered serious losses over the same period. But, even though foreign bonds are outperforming competing investments, there are limits to how many more of them some of the big institutions can buy. For example, a state law forbids insurance companies doing business...
...with its private labels and its well-known national brands. The food items meet all the minimum Government requirements for quality, and the packages and cans are made and labeled according to specifications laid down by Jewel. The difference is that unlike the major brands, which usually demand top-grade foodstuffs, the generic products are the cheaper, "standard" quality goods. Thus the green peas are more pebble-sized than petit, the rice is not always whole grain, grapefruit sections are broken and peanut butter contains specks of peanut skins...