Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first day in her combined fourth-and fifth-grade class, Amy practiced handwriting, read Paul Reveres Ride and studied the relationship of inches, yards and meters. One of her classmates, Maurice Brown, reported that "she's real smart. That's because she writes real neat." Mrs. Meeder's ver dict was that Amy was "very unaffected, very natural, very independent. She just fit in beautifully." In Plains, she attended a predominantly black school, and Stevens has a similar racial mix. Of the 217 students, 60% are black and 30% are foreign born-mostly the children of employees...
...lists. They were meant mainly as souvenirs and included a warning in small type that they were good only for viewing the oath-taking and parade. Somehow one went to an inmate at a Texas state penitentiary, another went to a child who, having been elected president of her grade-school class, had written Carter on how to win the presidency...
...Kuwait, the fourth largest OPEC producer (2 million bbl. per day), conceded that its production is running below normal. Many of Kuwait's customers obviously were shifting their orders to Saudi Arabia, which produces the same heavy-grade heating oil that has been the mainstay of Kuwaiti petroleum exports...
...Indonesia has in effect failed to post the immediate 10% increase that it voted for in Qatar. Instead, the Indonesians have increased prices less than 6% on a grade of crude that accounts for more than half the country's output. The motivation seemed to be a desire not to tempt Japan-the buyer of most of Indonesia's oil-to turn to Saudi Arabia for oil. Said one official of the Mining Ministry: "What is the fun of fixing high prices if the Indonesian crude subsequently is not sold...
...circ. 400,000) asked its readers just what they think of the quality of care in thehospitals, nursing homes and other institutions employing them. The results add up to a disturbing diagnosis: in the opinion of the majority of the nurses who replied, health care in general deserves a grade no better than...