Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When admissions officials here disclosed this February that they had begun putting some what increased emphasis on Achievement tests, they drew mixed reactions from colleagues. Harvard officials explained that they had acted on studies showing that upgraded Achievement tests tended to predict academic success freshman year better than the usually-stressed Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). But the University's shift reflects but one side of a growing debate among educators over just which test is more free of bias, whether colleges should be testing for innate ability or proven achievement, and whether any established test is really an accurate predictor...
...gentility or even excellence. "There was an element of uncertainty and disorientation that is easy so overlook, now that we all know how things turned out." James Fallows '70 remembers. "My own sense was of being on a gyre of history whose final resting point no one could safety predict." Clubs, mixers, even sports verged on the irrelevant one memorable spring, the sports staff of The Crimson voted to cover no more games and write no more columns, so the paper could devote its full energy and full space to tracking the upheaval Scholarship, which in Harvard's history often...
There were a few hints last week that business might soon be starting to pick up a little. The Commerce Department reported that its index of leading economic indicators, which attempts to predict future business trends, rose .8% in April-its first increase in twelve months. Auto sales increased a surprisingly strong 12.3% during the middle ten days...
TIME'S economists foresee no renewed outbreak of feverish jumps in the C.P.I. They predict that the index will meet the Administration's targets by rising just 5% for all of 1982 and 5.7% in 1983. The economists were particularly cheered by an unexpectedly sharp drop in the so-called core rate of inflation, which measures the inflationary impact of wage gains. That key indicator has fallen to about 6%, from a high of about 9% in 1980. Said Walter Heller, chief economic adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: "A sustained period of 6% core inflation...
...year's third and final installment of the personal income tax cut, and for major savings on defense. Those and related steps, he argued, could whittle the 1985 deficit to a manageable $75 billion. That would be a major drop from the $233 billion deficit that some experts predict...