Word: minuses
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Over her four years at Harvard, Schwartz did not receive a single grade lower than an A—not even an A-minus, giving her a perfect 15.0 grade point average on Harvard’s 15 point scale...
Thesis writers have also had to come to grips this spring with the limits of meritocracy, namely the fact that many concentrations have absolutely no idea how to evaluate their honors candidates fairly and accurately. One senior told me that he received one grade of summa-minus on his thesis and one grade of no distinction. In other words, one reader said his work was one of the best theses of the year, and another reader said he deserved to graduate from the College with only a degree in general studies. (In situations like this, by the way, the thesis...
...It’s your dream come true,” said Petra R. Rivera ’03, a fellow Dunster House resident that Martin and Pereira brought along for the ride. And it was, sort of, minus a Jacuzzi, an adoring crowd and actual celebrity...
...Frankfurt exchange of €92.50 in June. Then demand for semiconductors slumped, and Infineon hit a slick of red ink as losses mounted over the next two years. The company's share price has fallen more than 90% to around €7. That boom and bust story - minus the racing car - is true for companies across the semiconductor industry, which has been mired in the worst economic slump in its history. Semiconductors are the fuel of the modern world of communications; they run everything from your computer to the airbag in your car. They are also big business; in Europe...
...both in their 80s, embarked on a 1,300-mile car trip to visit him. Halberstam braids together the story of their road trip--that other great American pastime--with an account of their bittersweet seasons as Red Sox. Though they played as a foursome from 1942 to 1951, minus a few years for World War II, they never won a World Series, and in 1949 they lost the pennant to the New York Yankees on the last day of the regular season on a dying-quail blooper. ("I can still see it with my eyes closed," Williams would remember...