Word: interpretative
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...many colleges. Scores, although limited in their predictive power, still provide a nationally standardized benchmark against which admissions officers may quickly garner a rough idea of an applicant’s comparative academic ability. As long as admissions committees are aware of the test’s limitations and interpret scores with the applicant’s socioeconomic background in mind, considering test scores may greatly expedite what would otherwise be an unmanageably complex admissions process. To be sure, in an ideal world, colleges would not have to rely on scores at all when evaluating applicants. This is a luxury...
...about endlessly self-obsessed boomers dealing with self-worth - about work and children in the late 1980s and '90s when the median boomer was in her 30s and about authenticity and aging now that the median boomer is 52. And both conflicts are about the right ways to interpret the legacies of feminism. If the personal is the political, as the women on the barricades made us believe, then even choices about how to face old age are going to be loaded. Barbara Kass, a New York City psychotherapist and definitely a citizen of Woodstock Nation in the '60s, feels...
...attempt to maintain the integrity of sound lenders and borrowers and stop the markets from seizing up. Whether this saves the day or is seen as just a symptom of more bad news to come for risky assets will then be the next big issue for investors to interpret. Normally, such moves are seen as bad news. But for investors who have been savvy and patient, such rocky times may offer a fine opportunity to pick up cheap equities, particularly in sectors likely to benefit from powerful long-term trends such as climate change, demographic change and the burgeoning wealth...
...immediately after the attack. "No one twisted an ankle. No one jammed a thumb. Nothing." Al-Quraishy was apologetic but offered no explanation. "You really can't tell with that guy," Diaz says. "Either he was sincere, or he's a great actor. It's really almost impossible to interpret...
...fake who exploited religion for political purposes and pandered to voters. Now Senator Clinton, the lifelong Methodist and one-time Sunday school teacher, is in a bind: So many voters think they "know" she can't possibly be religious that when she speaks about her faith, they interpret it as pure political posturing...