Word: grading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the frigid air mass finally began to move, it blew into western Canada, where the temperature in many cities plunged as low as -40 degrees F. The worst snowstorm in Edmonton since 1885 brought the city to a virtual standstill. In Calgary 100,000 grade-school children were told to stay home when the wind-chill factor reached -67 degrees, a level at which exposed flesh freezes in less than a minute...
...Yeah, people say it's not a normal childhood," she says. "But I've maintained the same friends since seventh grade. I do normal things. I've just done less of them...
...program brought me out of my shell," says Rita Urban, a mother of six. "Before this I was a sit-at-home housewife with an eighth grade education. It's great to be able to get a break and meet other people. When you're stuck in the house, your friends all seem to be gone...
...wasn't until the 10th grade that he took up the game seriously...
...name also "parallels the reaction to our music, which is 'What?' " No matter what its inspiration or explanation, Was (Not Was) is certainly an improvement on Fagenson (not Weiss), which, while never a consideration, would at least have been straightforward. Don Fagenson and David Weiss first met in eighth grade outside a gym teacher's office, where they awaited disciplining. Don's parents were both teachers. David's mother was an actress, and his father was a radio and TV actor who worked with everyone from Orson Welles to Soupy Sales and appeared for a decade as Santa...