Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When Billy dons his official Harvard security uniform, five times a week, he wears a black wool sweater adorned with a Harvard patch. A red stripe runs down his black pants to the sneakers that pass for shoes from far away. He attaches a walkie-talkie and a hefty set of keys to a belt that snaps together with plastic clasps. His hat with a #157 badge covers his thinning white hair. When Billy speaks, he mixes his local accent with phrases such as "one might say" and "so to speak...
Clinton didn't pass by either group on her way into the hotel...
...giving students who pass the MCAS an "honors diploma" sounds an awful lot like the grade inflation that Alejandro Jenkins talked about in his column ("A Fool's Complaint," Opinion, Dec. 1). Under this system the MCAS would quickly fade into the background along with all of the other standardized tests that high school students take...
...examinations--which teachers must pass in order to receive their licenses--test basic skills in reading comprehension, writing and expertise in a particular subject area...
Teachers must pass all three sections but don't have to take all the sections at once...