Word: tested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
...final sequence, another rainbow arches above her, beckoning her onward. In between, she experiments with lesbian and heterosexual lovers (Amanda Donohoe and Paul McGann, respectively), endures a bleak passage as a teacher in a working-class school and witnesses the end of an Edenesque England. All these experiences test her, stir her questing spirit and lead her finally to feminist independence, which was never more attractively stated than it was in these early, innocent days...
...stepping up aid to Nicaragua and continuing to produce five times as many tanks as the U.S. Though Baker specifically denied any U.S. intention to "sit tight and await Soviet concessions," he went on to outline an approach that sounded exactly like that: "Our policy must be . . . to test the application of Soviet 'new thinking' again and again" with a view to determining "whether the new thinking is real once we probe behind the slogans...
...surprise announcement, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci told the council that he had discussed ways to improve the city's rent control system with Michael H. Turk and William S. Noble of the Cambridge Tenants Union. Vellucci indicated the two would support a means test--which would link tenants' eligibility for rent control to their income...
...Cambridge Tenants Union is opposed to a means test," Turk said...