Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite ready for speaking parts, but two show-business newcomers made their camera debuts last week. Appearing for the first time in Los Angeles: Richard Francisco Thomas, first son of that bright-eyed doer of good deeds on The Waltons TV show, Richard Thomas, and Wife Alma, a former grade-school teacher. "I was expecting a girl," said Dad, adding that he would probably keep trying. At the same time, in London, Jason Lawson took his first bow as well. He is the son of Actor Leigh Lawson and former Disney Pollyanna Hayley Mills, who is still awaiting her divorce...
...native of a sleepy town in Niigata prefecture, Kaku-san went to Tokyo at the age of 15 with only a grade school education and less than $3 in his pocket. By the time he was 19, the cocky, hardworking Tanaka owned a contracting business. During World War II, his firm was big enough to handle a $20 million contract for the Japanese army in Korea. In 1947 he became a member of the Diet by bankrolling his way through a lower house election...
...with a midterm worth 15 per cent of the final grade, the students must retain all the material for the two tests...
Under the revised grading policy the final examination will count for 25 per cent of the final grade, while the mid-term this Friday will count 15 per cent. The remaining 60 per cent of the grade will be based on work done in laboratory, seminars and lecture units...
Originally there was no mid-term and the final could only raise or lower a student's grade one increment...