Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since most students are clustered around the cut-off point for Dean's List (between groups III and IV), a slight increase in grade averages means a sharp increase in the number of students eligible for honors programs. This explains why the comparatively small rise in freshman grade averages has led to the large increases in number of students on Dean's List and graduating with honors...
...learning, Boston Latin could claim at least some part in the later success of a line of "old boys" that stretched all the way from Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Kennedy and Leonard Bernstein. But after World War II, as the city school system deteriorated, Boston Latin went into a sharp decline, and for a while seemed destined to become just another inept high school. Now, in a striking recovery, it once again ranks among the nation's best-largely because of a return to the fine old academic values it began with...
...payments in balance over the long run. The search for such stability is greatly complicated by the world's increasing dependence on foreign trade, which means that shifts in one big national economy can inflict much damage on neighbors. Because West Germany's recession led to a sharp drop in imports and a surge of exports, both Belgium and The Netherlands suffered payments deficits in 1966, rebounding last year only after German business picked up again. Italy paid a heavy price in unemployment and bankruptcies to achieve a payments surplus starting in 1964. Having taken that medicine...
...devaluation's bitter, month-long aftertaste, a paroxysm of family infighting has broken out, presenting Prime Minister Harold Wilson with the first serious threat to his leadership in his three-year term in office. Labor's left wing is just spoiling for a squabble over proposals for sharp new spending cuts, expected next month. So defiant and independent have some of Labor's ministers grown, said the Sunday Telegraph, that what Britain now has is Cabinet rather than prime ministerial government...
...theatrical amanuensis (Barbara Parkins) who soon learns that the room at the top has no exit. Patty is boffo at the box office, but perpetually drunk on booze and zonked by "dolls"-drugs that pep her up in the morning and put her to sleep at night. Susan gets sharp lines in her face and dull ones in her plays. Sharon, a cancer victim, commits suicide by downing a mouthful of sleeping pills. Barbara has an affair with an agent, gets only 10% of his affection and starts playing with dolls herself. She eventually flees back to her New England...