Word: tested
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...Senate is by definition symbolic. But on an issue as explosive as the trial of a popular President during an age of vengeance in a Senate controlled by the opposition party, no vote is easy. There are surely votes ahead that will divide the caucus, strain party loyalties, test principle against politics and test both against the law. But this vote was much harder than the final tally suggests...
...suppose that you were test-marketing an antidote for a nation that had just impeached the most ambitious, adulterous, undisciplined and profane President in a generation. Your roll-out would need to look more spontaneous than calculated. It would be preferable if your candidate had never been one before. It would be reassuring to know self-control was not a problem. And it would be even better if, instead of chasing skirts, she wore them...
...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...
Students who attend the drive will take a simple blood test; their bone marrow type will then be recorded by the NMDP...
...next room, Bermudez overseas Ronnet and her classmates as they take a practice high school equivalency test. Ronnet's daughter Sadida, 3, looks...