Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other teaching fellows use the "tough love" approach towards first-years, acknowledging their lack of educational experience but hoping that lower grades will motivate the students to work harder and rise to the level of older students in the section. But even if these teaching fellows opt to neglect class status in their grading policies, they could still provide first-years with extra help in the form of additional review sessions or additional essay critiques-even additional office hours. Not only could this level the playing field between those of different high school backgrounds but also between first-years...
...course, I thought they were less useful when we were ranked lower," he joked...
...GIVE YOURSELF TIME If you are looking for a lower management position, it can take up to about six months of consistent networking on average to find the position you want, says Deborah Arron, a Seattle career consultant. A middle-management job could take up to one year, and an upper-management position could involve a two-year networking crusade...
...akin to a tax cut. American motorists are filling their tanks for under $1 per gal., less than the price of bottled water. America's annual oil bill dropped roughly $40 billion last year, and that money has shifted to other parts of the booming economy. The result is lower inflation and higher growth, with savings that show up on everything from home- heating bills to airline fuel and utility charges. Says Cynthia Latta, principal U.S. economist at Standard & Poors/DRI: "Higher oil prices will be widely felt across the economy, but they are not likely to pose an immediate threat...
...same countries that signed on to last week's deal agreed to reduce oil production by a whopping 3.1 million bbl. daily. When that happened, prices rose from $13 to more than $17 per bbl. Then flagrant quota busting, higher production from Iraq, warmer winter weather and lower demand for energy in Asia combined to wreck the price-fixing scheme, and oil crashed to just over...