Word: grading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well academically, friends said he rarely needed to do any work. “The things he was able to grasp at the age that he was were just incredible,” Brian Friedman said, noting that his brother understood calculus in the eighth grade. During a remission in 2005, Friedman was granted a request by the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Rather than opting for a shopping spree, a meeting with a celebrity, or a trip to Disney World, he used the opportunity to found Mikey’s Way Foundation, a charity that raises money to improve entertainment...
...strong opinions, though, everyone agreed that the strongest belonged to Teri Peasel, who was busy highlighting the hair of Christy St. Pierre, a second-grade teacher. "I tell you," Peasel said, "I think if the Republicans get it again, we'll have another world war. Honestly, this whole government scares me. I am pro-life, but that's between a woman and her God. I'm voting for Obama, and I think he has a very good chance around here because people are so sick of what's going...
...success: continually tweaking the firm's game to fit the times, the markets, the opportunities and Goldman's talent--managing partners like the brilliant and charming seventh-grade dropout from Brooklyn, Sidney Weinberg (a.k.a. "Mr. Wall Street"); the worldly, turbocharged Gus Levy; and John Whitehead, whose prescience helped shape the firm into a master of the financial universe in the 1980s. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, now a flummoxed bureaucrat in the hot seat, also ran the show after forcing out Jon Corzine...
...populate it, Quick barely manages to flesh out the main character, let alone the secondary ones. Quick endows Pat with the voice and writing style of a seventh grader. Pat expresses himself in run-on sentences, and often uses grammatical constructions that one might find in a poorly written grade-school report. One example of this can be found in Pat’s discussion of “The Bell Jar:” “this book excites me because it deals with mental health, a topic I am very interested in learning about...
...verbal tics that made him look his age, including a heavy reliance on his "my friends" crutch, and seemed nervously well aware of the high stakes. Without a solid win, he did not make up as much ground as he needed to, but lives to fight on. Overall grade...