Word: placement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Complaints began soon after the pictures went up, and students present at last night's meeting said they had heard other Leverett residents object to the drawings, specifically to their placement in a common eating area...
Mary Levinson, the candidate's mother and self-proclaimed "greatest ally," boasts of her son's platform, which features the government-sponsored placement of 300,000 men and women onto clipper ships, and a guarantee of jobs, housing and food...
...done. He places his third-place cat, a RedSomali, back in her cage, and removes a BluePersian. Barnaby's moves are swift and sure. Heruns his hand down the back, thumb along thespine, evaluating the finish of the coat anddevelopment of the musculature. He focuses on thehead, measuring the placement of the ears and nosewith his forefinger and noting the color and shapeof the eyes. Helfing the cat in the air, one handunder the chest, he measures weight distributionand judges posture. It takes ten, perhaps 15seconds...
...what's the problem? For one thing, there is a gap in scores on standardized tests, especially in math and science, which the report blames partly on lingering bias in both testing and curriculum. On Advanced Placement tests, which enable students to earn college credit during high school, boys outperform girls in math, physics and biology. On the SAT test, that ubiquitous measure of alleged merit, in 1991 boys beat girls by 8 points in the verbal score and 44 points in math...
Sources have said that the writedowns in private placement investments amounted to approximately $200 million...