Word: quarreling
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...test-score gains reported in the book, saying that coaching usually produces increases of only 14 to 26 points. Many of the "tricks" that Katzman's Review claims to impart, says Anrig, are explained in a free E.T.S. booklet distributed in advance of the SAT. College administrators view the quarrel with general calm, noting that the SATs, however feared or valid, are just one element in admissions decisions. A few educators have suggested replacing the SATs with exams like the E.T.S. Achievement Tests, which measure knowledge rather than aptitude. Owen insists that the Review system could crack their codes...
...almost a decade, they fought against Rhodesia's white minority regime. The alliance lasted through independence in 1980 and the renaming of Rhodesia as Zimbabwe. But then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, 61, and his former comrade-in-arms, Joshua Nkomo, 67, began to quarrel over the political spoils. Today Nkomo and his Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) are locked in a bitter struggle for control of the country's future with Mugabe and his dominant Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). Says a Western diplomat in Harare, the capital: "Mugabe must often wish that Nkomo would just retire...
...philosophical objective of reducing the role of the Federal Government in American life. In part, the howl probably has been delayed rather than suppressed. Democrats, cowed by Reagan's 49-state electoral sweep, are lying low, many in the hope that Reagan's budget will self-destruct in a quarrel over military spending. Their strategy for the moment is to let Dole and his Republican Senate colleagues take the lead in trying to negotiate a compromise with the White House that would then have to be further compromised to get past the Democratic House...
...competition met Runny next significant moral to generic. It's a quarrel between Itch and poor, Characteristically, the brat is Itch and favored by Bunny's parents. Gene being poor and from a troubled background, is discriminated against by being forced to see Bunny without the knowledge of her parents...
...spent the past two years, Svetlana was an often charming but restless, unhappy and quarrelsome woman. Her feverish enthusiasm for people and places could quickly turn into disappointment and recrimination, as evidenced by a trail of broken friendships and angry words. In retrospect, it seems clear that her ultimate quarrel was with her father, whom she fatefully resembled. As she once said about the Soviet people, Stalin's "shadow still stands over all of us. It still dictates to us, and we very often obey." The story of Svetlana's life is the chronicle of her losing battle with...