Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understand how to study law generally is not likely to find any assistance under the present system. In fact, under this system he may not even realize he has a problem until he receives his grades. It is disheartening for a student to go through a year of hard work only to be told by a letter grade that he approached the law incorrectly...
Four-hour exam grades are one kind of incentive, but they are not the only kind. To the extent that they operate as an incentive, they also tend to undermine a student's better motives. Students admitted to this law school have been trained to work hard. Most are efficient and eager to add to their understanding of any new, complex subject. Most would feel inadequate and uncomfortable unless they attempted to master the material offered in the first year...
...Greyer World. "I've been working too freakin' hard," says Breslin. "I want to escalate my standard of living." So even though he admits to being "an unlettered bum" who has read nothing murkier than Hemingway and Steinbeck, Mr. Breslin is turning novelist. His first novel isn't quite finished, but MGM has already bought the screen rights for $250,000, plus a cut of the gross. Titled The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, it is about the lighter side of the Mafia. To command those prices, Jimmy's agent must be a Sicilian...
Most fans found it hard to sympathize either with athletes whose average salary is $26,000 a year or with businessmen who are wealthy enough to own a major-league team. Their reaction was traditional: Play Ball...
...China's emperors. Legalities aside, Red China could overrun Hong Kong in 24 hours whenever it wished. What permits business optimism is the belief that Peking finds the status quo alluring. Red China earns nearly half of its foreign exchange-upwards of $500 million a year in hard currency-by trading with and through the crown colony. Some $100 million of that amount comes in remittances from overseas Chinese that flow through the colony's banks; Peking owns or controls ten banks and innumerable other businesses in Hong Kong...