Word: points
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this point, we're hoping that when the Foreign Minister gets here, something will be resolved," the close friend added...
...forehead glistening with beads of sweat, John R. Silber is hotly defending his record as president of Boston University [B.U.] before a crowded press conference. His face is ashen and his teeth are gritted, but his voice never breaks as he makes point after point in firm, measured tones. As he pauses for emphasis, a student heckler interrupts to ask a pointed question. Silber whips his head around and shuts the student up with an ice-cold stare and a reminder that it is he, Silber, who is holding the press conference. Then, without losing pace, Silber plunges back into...
Lewis Armistead, a Harvard community relations official, refused comment on the proposed ordinance. "It's all hypothetical at this point," Armistead said...
...culprit, he declared, is the culturally biased IQ test. Peckham quoted a similar ruling in which Judge J. Skelly Wright summarized the reformers' point. Said Wright: "Although test publishers and school administrators may exhort against taking test scores at face value, the magic of numbers is strong...
Lest battered opponents hope that the dynasty might run down, Faust points to the in-school farm teams that he and his staff of twelve assistant coaches have set up: the freshmen and sophomore squads were both unbeaten this year, and the frosh defense gave up just six points in eight games. Meanwhile Moeller, which draws its students from 13 parishes in Cincinnati's middle-class northeastern suburbs, is besieged with applications from parents of would-be gridiron greats. They figure that the school's $725 tuition ($825 for non-Catholics) is a good investment, and with reason...