Word: substandard
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...more than self-esteem—future employers, graduate school admissions officers and Phi Beta Kappa committees will not suspect that the unusually low grade on a student’s transcript was due to the professor’s ideological commitments rather than the student’s substandard work. Students seeking to meet fixed GPA cutoffs will have no opportunity to explain the discrepancy. Arbitrarily lowering the grades of all sophomore government concentrators from what they would have received for the same work from other departments (or even from other professors) will not stop grade inflation and will...
...nearly every suburb and city. Today there are at least 10,000 facilities, 90% of which have been built in the past decade, according to the American Seniors Housing Association. They house nearly 800,000 elderly Americans. But the boom has been accompanied by widespread allegations of substandard care, neglect and even preventable death. Year after year, Washington politicians take aim at problems in nursing homes, often proposing scores of new guidelines for an industry that is already heavily regulated. Yet Congress has thus far largely ignored assisted living, which receives no federal oversight whatsoever...
...current theater is simply inadequate, Illingworth says. The seats are too small, theatrical productions are forced to bring in their own lights and the backstage space and dressing rooms are substandard...
...petition process does not provide students with the flexibility necessary for intellectual exploration. Rather, it reinforces the idiosyncrasies of a Core Program that corrals students into a few substandard courses without providing them a broad-based liberal arts education...
...Jonas has been a rock and consistent for us from day one," Mazzoleni said. "He hasn't had many substandard games. We give up about 35 shots a game, but he's been giving us that opportunity to withstand someone's best shot...