Word: permanente
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Stanford's present policy on reporting grades is based on a "record of achievement" concept. Since 1969, when the faculty voted to get rid of failing grades, Stanford has not kept any permanent record of courses students fail. The school records only courses in which they do passing work.
Though students may receive a "NC"--No Credit--on their quarterly report card for a failed course, all record of the course is expunged from the student's permanent transcript.
Director Laith Zawawi scraps the traditional Greek chorus and employs in its place the streamlined commentary of the Dark and Light Spirits. Henry as the Light Spirit and a Darth Vaderesque Christina Kiely as her darker counter-part are permanent fixtures to the play. When they don't have any...
HSDF has been set against large-scale development in the Square it formed in 1979 to fight plans for the Charles Hotel complex. After that case, Cambridge citizens decided to make a permanent "watchdog organization" out of their group.
Officially the White House is authorized to have 323 permanent employees. But the Brookings Institution's Bradley Patterson thumbed through recent records and concluded that 3,366 people are assigned there in one capacity or another, most on loan from other federal departments -- a venerable fudge practiced by all modern...