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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liquid diet, patients have to return to the all too tempting world of food and the all too easily avoided reality of exercise. That is when the real test comes, says Ted Schilling, 42, an attorney in Osterville, Mass. A veteran of "every diet you could be on," Schilling took to heart the behavioral-modification classes he attended while losing 100 lbs. A year and a half later, his weight is still off. Says Schilling proudly: "I'm living a normal life with food...
Gorbachev's mission was more than humanitarian: it was a major test of his reformist leadership. He knows that out of the despair of Armenia's disaster he must find a way to regain the political trust of a people who over the past ten months have become estranged from Moscow and embittered toward Gorbachev because of his rejection of their nationalist aspirations...
...which schools are best for a student and what clothes and questions are appropriate for campus interviews. Some counselors even offer tips on how to outsmart the SAT (example: since each section's multiple-choice questions progress from easy to hard, an answer that looks obvious early in the test is more likely to be correct than one that looks obvious later). Such personalized attention is rare in most large high schools, where guidance counselors can easily be assigned 300 students or more. Says Jane McClure of Jackson & McClure Associates in San Francisco: "There isn't enough time for everyone...
Freshmen must demonstrate proficiency in a language by passing either a CEEB Achievement Test, a Harvard placement test, or an Advanced Placement Examination. Those who don't pass take a full year of foreign language...
Harvard should test not only for reading and writing proficiency in a foreign language, but also for speaking ability. Neither the College nor the students benefit from the policy of granting diplomas to students who are left speechless in conversation in a foreign country...