Word: priore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first-come, first-served, you submit your resume(s) and materials and sign up for an interview(s) at the same time. Under the closed system students submit resumes and special application materials in advance for company review and selection of interviewees. Resume submission deadlines are usually 3 weeks prior to the company visit; they are listed in the On-Campus Recruiting Section of the OCS Newsletter and in the Recruiting Office, Room 209 and our web site. Companies will then notify you, usually by letter, that you have been selected for an interview. You then bring this letter...
...implicitly acknowledged that the tests are not measures of intrinsic ability and that test preparation guides do help to raise scores. Surely that goes against the idea of their exam. Just like any other exam in high school or college, some students can perform well without prior preparation; many others can succeed with studying. However, other exams are written to test knowledge of an area, so that studying for them provides some sort of education in itself. ETS has not claimed that studying for their exams does anything other than raise exam scores. And now that these exams are acknowledged...
MacDonald said that the station was serving in a "support service" capacity prior to the department's relinquishing control...
...market-in the form of charter schools-has already proven itself to be ill-suited to the needs of education. Charter schools, an innovation imported from England several years ago, encourages individuals with a plan for an experimental school to apply for funding directly from the state without prior approval from local officials. The New Republic has chronicled the disaster of the charter schools over the past year or so. We have read of an Afrocentric high school in Washington, D.C. that threw a white journalist out of the school, hurling epithets. Elsewhere, a charter school is established...
...police officers. Predictably, the magic of the movies affords them opportunity at salvation. Life is less forgiving. The two cops charged with the assault of Abner Louima have perpetrated an act of evil and will justly go to jail. What few people know is that just one week prior to the assault, the same two police officers heroically re-entered a collapsing building in order to save its inhabitants, despite orders to withdraw from the scene because their own lives were in danger. The tragedy of these two Brooklyn cops, models of both valour and depravity, is more poignant than...