Word: processing
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Standardized tests have also recently become a focus of attack in Congress. A bill now before the House of Representatives may force major changes in the content of standardized tests and limit the role the tests play in the admissions process. And the Bakke case, now before the Supreme Court, challenges the legitimacy of these tests altogether, as proponents of affirmative action charge that the tests are culturally biased...
...selection of players, it is not difficult to give an early assessment of the relative standing of an individual player. It is unfortunate that the athletes here, all intelligent people, are subjected to arbitrary and subjective decisions about receiving playing time. A method to improve the player selection process may be to have the players themselves pick the line-up on the basis of practice performance. This method ensures a sense of objectivity as the only criterion for selection is outstanding performance. While this may seem a bit drastic, the point to be emphasized is that there is room...
...What we're trying to do is to get these people to think about the perspectives of the other players in the process--to get the military to understand the constraints the civilian operates under and vice-versa," Johnston said...
...Hopefully, the program will correct misunderstanding and encourage more effective action--we want to make a real contribution to the national security process," Johnston said...
...taking a course in English composition with Charles Townsend Copeland, better known as Copey, whose genial, sometimes crusty, habit it was to bring outsiders into his classroom, usually without notice to his students. The idea was to shake us up; an element of surprise was part of the process. Copey styled himself Harvard's "reader-in-ordinary." When he gave his readings, in a dry Maine accent and a gravelly baritone, he required absolute silence from an intimidated audience. He was about as 18th-century as a man could be; his academic life largely centered in Samuel Johnson and that...