Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, the CUE's new computer-read evaluation forms ask students to use a one-to-five rating scale, instead of the one-to-seven scale used in prior years...
...CRITICS OF Foreign Policy Stage '60-Style Protest" read the headline in The Washingtion Post. The story ran on the front page of the Metro section. The New York Times headline read: "Thousands Protest U.S. Policy in Central America". Its story ran on page 32. Neither was surprising, though the Times' article seemed about three years late and the Post's about...
Adler has typically been on the opposite tack from the majority since the beginning of his own education. As a precocious 15-year-old who often told chums, "Be quiet; I'm thinking," he discovered that John Stuart Mill had read Plato by age ten. Forthwith Adler devoured Plato's works. With equal speed and assurance, he acquired his scorn for educational conventions, not to mention conventional educators. Then, as now, he found no use for grades: "What do they measure? The ability of some children to bone up for examinations." Given the power, he would abolish all marks...
...There are even books: Okrent and Waggoner's original Rotisserie League Baseball, published by Bantam in 1984, and How to Win at Rotisserie Baseball by American Dreamer Peter Golenbock, just out from Vintage. "If I were to discover a cure for cancer, my obit in the Times would still read, 'Dan Okrent, invented Rotisserie League Baseball,' " notes Okrent, editor of the regional magazine New England Monthly...
...said the person who called him from the publication never read him the entire letter. He said he had never read the article about which he was supposed to have written a letter...