Word: riskier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impressed by the argument that the pass/fail option would encourage students to select more challenging and intellectually demanding Core courses. In each area of the Core, certain courses will be perceived by a given student as riskier than others. Students who feel obliged to maintain the highest possible grade-point average are tempted to satisfy Core requirements by taking what they perceive to be the safest courses. The pass/fail option would reduce the risk involved in taking a course that treads on unfamiliar ground...
...paperback rights went for $813,000. If it is not a thriller, neither is the new book a conventional novel; it depends solely on suspense for its sustained pace - and that is all to the good. The sad news is that the author has emphasized her real but riskier talent: writing about a collection of people who are emotional misers, helpless prisoners of their warped, florid but powerful brains. Also, because they are well-off Londoners or criminals, they do not bother much about work...