Word: midterms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also be shut down, the teachers union avoided any firing of its members when it accepted a new contract at last year's salary level. Still, unless the deficit is reduced, the school district may not be able to borrow more money and may have to close at midterm. Detroit, with a $6 million shortfall, has closed ten elementary schools, dropped some high school varsity sports and fired 600 substitute teachers. In Boston, Mayor Kevin White has ordered $15 million slashed from this year's school budget to help ease the pain of a $56 increase...
When instructors in the course decided after the theft to drop S-1's self-paced format--adding a midterm and increasing the final exam's impact on S-1's grades--they also extended the deadline for with-drawing from the course to last Tuesday...
...with a midterm worth 15 per cent of the final grade, the students must retain all the material for the two tests...
...like an ordinary soldier, had a duty to stay on the job). The advantage of occupying the Oval Office worked even for those accidental Presidents who, like Gerald Ford, were raised up from Vice President in an emergency. Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson both stepped into the presidency in midterm, then went on to win election on their own. Perhaps both decided not to run a second time because they thought that they would not win. But this suggests another conclusion from history: if neither Truman nor Johnson could have been reelected, the successors chosen by their party could...
...hits you that you no longer get worked up about which English professor screwed which class on which midterm exam, and you realize you're outside...