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...three Achievement Test scores to the option of submitting five Achievements and no SAT--is in one sense flexible and forward-looking. Admissions studies have indicated for several years now that scores on the Achievement Tests, which are detailed exams on specific high school subjects, tend to predict freshman adacademic performance better than scores on the more general and less curriculum-based SAT. Test experts--both at Harvard and nationwide--have recently argued that the SAT reflects not verbal or mathematical "aptitude," as advertised, but rather a high school senior's lifelong exposure to good books and magazines and analytic...
...police officials are already planning additions to the computer, although they hesitate to predict a definite timetable for building it up. "This system will be dated in six or seven years. Then we'll be able to get something for half the money that can do three times as much," Nagle says...
...Since there is a lack of clean water in 85 percent of the Third World, and little fuel in many areas to heat and sterilize formula, and since mothers who use the formula for even three days find that their breasts dry up and can no longer nurse, experts predict that one to three million babies die each year from improper bottle feeding (though not all of this is due to Nestle...
Since the Administration has been on both sides of the issue, it is hard to predict whether Reagan will sign the bill once the House and Senate have ironed out their small differences. Either way, the real test will come in 1985, when Congress is scheduled to do a comprehensive overhaul of all farm-price programs. Then it will be seen who has more clout, the milk lobby or the milk consumers...
Executives of the three commercial networks happily predict a marked increase in the number of televised debates. NBC, ABC and CBS have already dispatched telegrams to the Democratic and Republican National Committees inviting candidates to participate in on-air debates some time next year. Broadcasters maintain that they will be able to bring greater flair to staging the encounters than the league was able to do. Says CBS Senior Vice President Gene Mater: "We can do a better job. Communications is our business...