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...perfect 800 score, the nationwide average on the verbal section was 426 (in contrast to 424 last year); on the math section it was 467 (in contrast to 466). The three-hour test, which is taken by about 1 million seniors a year, is designed to predict on the basis of general intellectual aptitude how they will perform in college. In addition, the yearly aggregate result has come to be regarded as a leading indicator of how well U.S. high schools are doing. Says George Hanford, president of the College Entrance Examination Board, which sponsors the SAT: "This year...
Jiggetts, whose easy-going manner and quiet speaking voice bely his intense passion for the players' cause, doesn't predict when the strike would end, noting simply that "we're not coming back until we get what we want." But he adds, "we're going...
Cambridge officials predict that more than 15,000 jobs will be created over the next 15 years as a result of current development...
OTHER MANIFESTATIONS of the underwear fixation will appear in a wide variety of circumstances. We can safely predict that an inverted snobbery will develop, particularly among Ivy League and other "prestige college" students. Those students who come from affluent families and from Eastern elite private schools will shop for their under things at the very cheapest department stores in order to declare their independence from the accepted norms. Some will wear "Daddy's discards"--stretched out and sufficiently worn hand-me-down underwear. This will replace the traditional passing-on-of-the-tweed-jacket ritual. Less-wealthy students...
...declined to predict if Harvard would permit the Justice Department to track down the approximately 30,000 alumni who owe Harvard money from unpaid student loans...