Word: grading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final part of the index, grades, is a more effective measure, but it also subject to occasional flaws. Superior students are sometimes inept in a single subject, which pulls down their overall grade point average; this human factor is often accounted for by understanding admissions officers...
...relaxing the rigidity of its index, Columbia moved closer to maintaining the balance between academics and athletics. Because of the intense scrutiny the change has come under, Columbia will be pressured to ensure that the athletes who are admitted make the grade...
...think dress guidelines are stupid," Lisa Bequette was saying just the other day, before beginning 8th grade at Maryland's Mount Airy Middle School, northwest of Washington. "I would wear a cropped T shirt to school. Why should they tell me not to show my belly button?" Good thing she is a little too young to meet Brendan McReady at a mixer. McReady, a junior at Bethesda- Chevy Chase High School, has some sentimental regard for the school uniforms at an alma mater: "Everyone wore the same thing every day, so perhaps it was easier. You'd get up, throw...
...talent, in turn, is coddled and honed. Promising grade schoolers are channeled into the country's 2,000 training centers. The best of them -- around 9,000 at any given time -- go on to some 25 residential sports schools, where 2,000 full-time trainers, plus doctors, masseurs and cooks, begin building Olympic winners...
...sprint, has worked with Trainer Gerd Muller for 18 years. "The man knows how to motivate me; he knows how to channel my ambition," says Hesslich. Functionaries also steer potential stars to where they will be most effective. Gabriele Reinsch, 24, started as a high jumper in the fourth grade and moved to shot put after an injury. When she proved too light, she was shifted to discus, and now holds the world's record...