Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other experts are less certain. Says William Fitzsimmons, director of admissions for Harvard and Radcliffe colleges: "Whenever we talk about statistical trends around here, we like to see things occur over at least a two, three-or four-year period. But certainly it is encouraging to see it go this way rather than the other way." In 1963, before the scores began to drop, the national average was 478 for verbal and 502 for math. Educators hypothesize that much of the 19-year decline occurred because colleges expanded their admissions, prompting many students to take the SAT who would never...
...buying them drinks and flashing large billfolds, performing quick pirouettes followed by a hiking of the shirt, a dropping of the trousers, and a flashing of the underwear label. In more traditional groups this kind of behavior may be shunned in public, but in such situations analogous behavior will occur in private...
...field find their stories subjected to a telexed barrage of researcher questions, called check points, to review for accuracy. And before a story is published, correspondents in the field who have contributed to the story must also review it, word for word. Errors, of course, still do occur, often brought to our attention by readers; in each case the cause is traced and discussed to ensure that that mistake-or that kind of mistake-will not be made again. Says Gordon: "Because we are a newsweekly, because we must provide more detail, more analysis and more background, research becomes...
President Reagan's new peace proposals have roused excited and generally favorable interest among West Bank Palestinians. Heated discussions about the merits of the plan occur at nearly every West Bank gathering. As a Palestinian editor put it, "It may not be what we have been struggling for, but you have to be a realist." Although there is disappointment that Washington ruled out an independent Palestinian state, there is also a feeling that just about anything is now preferable to continued occupation by Israel...
Space is most often the problem. The Florida department of corrections, under whose auspices a quarter of all U.S. inmate suicides occur, finally agreed with a judge to put no more than four prisoners in space designed to hold three. In Texas, where until a year ago 2,000 inmates had to sleep on the floor, officials for one week in May simply stopped admitting new prisoners rather than flout Judge Justice's order. Illinois is appealing last year's federal court order to house inmates in single cells, which officials estimate would require $400 million in new construction. Michigan...