Word: performs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makes no other claims for their tests than that they predict how well an applicant will perform at the institution to which he is applying. And according to an article by Steve Brill in the October, 1974 issue of New York Magazine, entitled The Secrecy Behind The College Boards, "ETS admits that aptitude and achievement cannot be measured in terms nearly as specific as the score that is recorded." An SAT score of 600, says Brill, means only that there is a two-in-three chance that your true score would be somewhere between 570 and 630; there...
...that a balance between inflation and unemployment was best maintained by a "fine tuning" of Government spending levels and other kinds of intervention (including controls), the policymakers have indeed paid more attention to monetary factors. That trend has been reinforced because Keynesian stimulative measures for a while seemed to perform uncertainly during the recent bout with "slumpflation." Many economists still feel that Friedman's following remains more of a cult than a school, but the Federal Reserve Board recently made a bow to Friedmanism by formally setting annual targets for expanding the money supply. In the past, Federal Reserve...
...Neil and veteran Stunt Woman Janet Brady were elected last month as the first female members of Stunts Unlimited, an organization whose members perform 70% of the stunt work in movies and television...
Most post-season analyses harp on several common elements. A young player did not perform up to potential, the reliable veteran came up lame, it was a cold spring training, the momentum was missing, and of course, the manager did not establish a good rapport with his players. This formula will work for a Red Sox post-mortem and is guaranteed to make you a hit at any cocktail party...
...present complicated and poignant personalities he wouldn't have polarized emotions as he has. We do root for Barrault and Lanoux as their affair escalates, as they begin to take a mischievous delight in flaunting their romance in front of a chagrined Pisier and Marchand, and as they perform their final act of liberation--shattering one of the family functions by announcing their departure and running away on Lanoux's is too contrived for the film's resolution to touch us in more than a superficial...