Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...January 9, 1999 administration of the MECT, 95 percent of the students who were repeat test takers (i.e., had failed before) failed once again. So any variance in test scores isn't big enough, or consistent enough, to push some of these people over the passing threshold. These poor souls also apparently all had the bad luck to get a bad proctor and/or a faulty tape both times they took the test...
...January 9, 1999 administration of the MECT, 95 percent of the students who were repeat test takers (i.e., had failed before) failed once again. So any variance in test scores isn't big enough, or consistent enough, to push some of these people over the passing threshold. These poor souls also apparently all had the bad luck to get a bad proctor and/or a faulty tape both times they took the test...
Surely 1999 won't be a repeat of 1998--Who could survive it?--but it could be a throwback to 1997, when Clinton's broken leg matched his busted-up spirit. Dreams of universal health care had been downsized to an extra day in the hospital for major surgery. The state attorneys general, not Clinton, were leading the war on tobacco. His heart wasn't in campaign-finance reform. He was reduced to bite-size governing and musing about his relevance...
...then they realize that wet work is much, much easier. The hours are much more flexible and if you repeat the same bathrooms over and over each week, then they don't get as dirty, and it's less of a job," Sunderson says...
Fourth, I have no factual details on what happened to the individuals given "radiation" without their knowledge--actions, I wish to repeat, that I would now deplore. However, on the basis of long experience, I suspect that no harm whatever befell them...