Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MENTAL", the next song, uses hard-driving guitars and drums and a standard, half-strangled vocal line from Joey Ramone. The only shock comes when Johnny Ramone breaks into a lead riff. It's not that spectacular--Jerry Garcia has nothing to fear yet--but it's there and it's not bad. The entire band has come a long way from their first albums, when songs like "I Want to Sniff Some Glue" sounded like the band had been playing music for about two weeks, which wasn...
...that they seem to want to. The rest of the first side of the album with songs like "Bad Brain" and "It's a Long Way Back" fit well into standard punk molds: perfect 4/4 time, straight drum beat and guitar lines with the subtlety of a jack hammer, or a seal-clubbing expedition...
...today's meritocracy, they lie about education. With the rate at which job candidates are now fibbing on résumés and faking sheepskins, graduate schools and companies face detective work almost every time they see an application. Many companies, in fact, have printed up a standard form for checking out applicant credentials. Harvard College, for instance, receives 2,000 queries a year. The Harvard Business School gets about 8,000. Checking up on about 12,000 inquiries a year, U.C.L.A. finds two or three frauds a week. For its part, Yale has accumulated a file...
...lunchroom doesn't do away with a vicious migrant labor system which confines hundreds of thousands of black South Africans to miserable shantytowns located at a discreet remove from South Africa's modern cities. Nor does it prevent a regime from charging black South Africans tuition for a sub-standard education while providing white South Africans with a decent education free of charge. It will never give black South Africans the political, civil, and social rights which the regime systematically denies them...
...Right now, our standard procedure is to demonstrate to students the reality that they will have to take a make-up exam in the spring without the benefit of a reading period," Wacker said. "I certainly don't think they do any better the second time around," he added...