Word: tested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been a man of crisis, a man of battle, a fighting man. Now God has given me this one test more." With those words, a tearful Jose Napoleon Duarte bade farewell to friends, boarded a U.S. military transport and lifted off last week from San Salvador's Ilopango air force base. Seven hours later, the President of El Salvador checked into Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to face his latest -- and most daunting -- challenge. Before leaving El Salvador, he had announced, "I have a bleeding ulcer in the stomach of a malignant character." Medical tests conducted...
Adam Hochschild '63, a co-founder of Mother Jones magazine, began his activist career in Harvard's Tocsin organization, which pushed for an atmospheric test ban treaty and organized the first national march on Washington against nuclear weapons. Hochschild later worked for civil rights in 1964, campaigned for McGovern in 1972 and demonstrated against the Vietnam...
...number of would-be law students who had high grades in college and top scores on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) has risen disproportionately, making the applicant pool especially strong and competitive, some officials...
...number of people with 42 or above on the [LSAT] test had increased 32 percent for us," says Richard I. Badger, assistant dean and dean of students at the University of Chicago Law School. The highest possible score on the LSAT...
...confusion is all the more curious because Dukakis has not been vague on a variety of litmus-test issues. In last week's San Francisco debate, he restated his opposition to capital punishment, boasted about the comprehensive medical-insurance program enacted in Massachusetts six weeks ago and agreed with Jesse Jackson that the U.S. should get tougher with South Africa's racist government. On most national-security questions, Dukakis sounds like the dove that...