Word: tested
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...body cars in keeping with Detroit's penchant for alphabetic code names. GM allotted nearly $7 billion, its largest development budget ever, to create the front-wheel-drive W-body models. While the cars have no names yet, their distinctive rounded shapes have been spotted on GM's test tracks...
Increasingly, a high level of literacy is required for work, for citizenship, for personal needs. Most technical manuals in the military and in industry require a relatively high literacy level (about a 12th grade reading level on a standardized reading test). It is the level sought by adults who lose their jobs in manufacturing and who seek advanced training and high school equivalency diplomas...
...teleteaching system was tested last year in a Extension School mathematics course. "I was actually very impressed with how much [students in the test course] learned and how easy it was to teach this way," said Deborah Hughes Hallett, one of the instructors...
...unemployment. James' interview with a pub manager revealed that he knew "bugger all" about the wine trade, and he flunked the psychological test for guards in the London subway. But he worked briefly and erratically as a librarian, factory hand, statistician and publisher's assistant. His digs were more makeshift than his jobs and included, besides a succession of repressive rooming houses, a converted coal barge with a toilet that tended to fill up with the bilges and a paper mattress wrapper on the floor of somebody else's room. One of his roosts was so tiny that the chief...
...make a dent in the burgeoning budget deficit, Congress must confront either the possibility of a tax increase sometime in the next two years or a loosening of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings noose. This could be the real test of whether the White House and the Democratic Congress will end up seeking compromise or confrontation. Reagan is sure to oppose any outright tax increase, just as he has done in the past. And the Democrats will be as wary as ever of being out front on the issue. But some package of spending cuts and revenue raising seems necessary...