Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Their standard operating procedure is a zero tolerance procedure--you have one beer and you're wrong," he says...
...asked Estes after the game if this is a standard ploy...
...Granted, standardized testing is a necessary tool in determining whether a student has a sound educational foundation and as such, cannot be completely abandoned. However, the prevailing notion of standardized tests as "the goal"--inciting unhealthy stratification and competition--conflicts with their utility as simple diagnostic tools. In fact, many of the items students are tested on are based on an arbitrary standard of what we think students "should" know...
...ready for, though part of it was that I just didn't have the energy to be clever. Also, I'd just stopped drinking coffee." He laughs. "So the album ended up being about how you play melody without cleverness. It's almost as though I was detoxing from standard chordal patterns. I didn't want any jazz harmonies that came from the brain instead of the heart...
...difference between Jobs and Gates is as striking as that between Apple's stunning, colorful iMacs and the standard beige Windows eyesores kludging up desktop space worldwide. Gates seems to view new technology as either a threat to his company or an opportunity to make more money and gain even more control of the market. Jobs responds to new technology by dreaming up ways to make it available to ordinary people like me. MATTHEW CECIL Iowa City...