Word: placement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Within the next few years they are going to change the high school [Advanced Placement] exams to incorporate these changes," she says...
...Glenshaw said he makes "no predictions" about the success rate of the new system. He added that he did not know if the 80 percent placement rate was a record high because no one had collected that kind of data before...
...with the promise of closure, my personal opinions may now encounter, in retrospect, the presumably objective "news" that never appears on this page. Newspapers carefully monitor the placement of what is on the one hand called "opinion" and on the other, "news." I, too, have been so disciplined...
Researchers also found that less than ideal placement of a windmill can have . a major impact: missing 10% of the wind can reduce power 30%. Moreover, the arrangement of turbines within a wind "farm" is important because the wake produced by one windmill affects those around it. Computers are being used to simulate varied terrain and calculate how to produce the most energy...
...fact, there is nothing new about his analysis. Ever since the invention of the television and its placement in every home across the nation, we have analyzed to death TV's influence on current events. For this reason, it remains a mystery to me why, with each new and sensational trial, reporters feel compelled to comment on how the television coverage has turned the players in the event into characters from soap operas or sitcoms...