Word: passes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Board of Education lowered the test standards so that more students could pass. Then, at the delayed prompting of Gov. A. Paul Cellucci (fully aware of possible election-year fallout should he not take action), it reconvened to restore the scoring system to its original, more rigorous level. The interim commissioner of the board, Frank Haydu, a proponent of the lower standards, resigned last week, rather than face more interference from the governor and Board of Education Chair John Silber...
...what, you may be thinking, does this mean to us, as Harvard students? Not much, right? After all, we're better educated than most. We could pass that test. That is, if we even wanted to become teachers. But there are better things to do--consulting, I-banking, lawyering, better jobs with higher pay and a great deal more respect. And that's exactly what I fear. There are many of us on this campus with the temperament and the skill to teach. Until now, we might have harbored the desire to try it, to join a low-paid profession...
...with guns--the mystique and abundance of firearms, and the ease with which they moved from one hand to another until they fell into the wrong ones. But that sequence of killings also produced a briefly effective national revulsion against gun violence. Before the year was out, Congress would pass the Gun Control Act of 1968, a milestone law that banned most interstate sales, licensed most gun dealers and barred felons, minors and the mentally ill from owning guns...
Magic Johnson's talk show has been on for three weeks--that's 15 episodes!--and the A-list guests are still accepting bookings. In just three more weeks he'll pass the mark set by Chevy Chase's talk show. His next hurdle: Dennis Miller, who aired 24 weeks strong. Can he make it? Stay tuned...
...known alternative groups does not really interest me all that much. Instead, it is their zany band names that I find especially intriguing. For, in an effort to outdo others in the industry, fledgling music groups continue to come up with stranger and stranger names, providing ample diversion to pass those lazy nights of summer...