Word: lowest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...think the compression is a problem, and the fact that we have so many more levels of distinction within the lowest quarter of students than we do within the top half of students is something that is problematic,” says Summers. “On the other hand, since courses differ in their degree of difficulty, in what they expect of students, in the quality of students who take them—I think it’s very difficult...
...Japan's April unemployment rate, according to figures released last week?the lowest since Dec. 1998 7,947 Number of suicides in Japan last year related to financial difficulties, down 950 from the previous year, according to a report by the National Police Agency...
...more Americans to get the activity their bodies need, and it doesn't require gym memberships or fancy equipment. The answer, they say, is walking. Unfortunately, most American communities were designed in the age of the automobile and aren't built for bipeds. "The U.S. probably has the lowest percentage of trips by biking and walking of any country," says psychologist Jim Sallis, director of the Active Living Research program at San Diego State University. Between 1977 and 1995, trips Americans made by walking declined 40%, even though a quarter of those trips are a mile or less. During...
...Coalition on the left. But it does not rank in the concerns of most people, and it comes at a time when Americans are already holding Congress in low regard. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll last week showed public approval of Congress at 33%, which is the lowest since 1994, the year voters got angry enough to topple the Democratic majority of the Senate and the House...
...spoken to. By the end of August, a certain number typically conclude that it was all a big mistake, that a nice liberal-arts menu would be more to their taste. The plebes going through Beast in the summer of 2001 were tough: only 41 members quit, the second lowest dropout level in 15 years. They would need to be, since the new superintendent who took command that July, Lieut. General William Lennox, was looking to sharpen the standards. "We had to tighten things up a bit," he says, "give more of the sense of what life is like...