Word: tested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will get better for him. He's 30 now, but he can't find a good wife without a job. Right now we are saving all we can." Her son chimes in for the first time: "In China it's like one big experiment now. And we are the test subjects." Gu Xiaoli ignores his bitter tone. "In China things will get better. But there are so many people...
...young that they must be taken to the men's room by their fathers. Another worry is the use of drugs. Steroids aren't as prevalent as they once were, but the abuse of painkillers has become a problem. WCW says it administers both regular and random drug tests. McMahon says the WWF used to test extensively, but that became too costly, so it now tests only when there are signs of abuse...
...pool or even off at investment camp, Japanese high schoolers are still in school--and will be until July 20, when they receive a 40-day recess, their longest of the year. Students, dressed in uniforms, often travel to school seven days a week, preparing for the ultimate test of adolescence: university entrance examinations. While President Clinton has proposed making the "13th and 14th years of education as universal as high school" in America, Japanese students are fighting their way to a college education--enrolling in "crammer colleges" if necessary to help them stay ahead of the academic pack. Those...
...learning to develop more structured lesson plans; my students look at me blankly when I ask them if they'd prefer to review analogies or sentence completions at the beginning of the session. I'm not about to start "shaming" my students who perform poorly on a practice test, but I am beginning to understand why the student gets absolutely frustrated with himself (no girls being taught here--male chauvinism in Japan is a whole other postcard waiting to be written) when his answer should have been "their," not "there...
...Ruth's accomplishments are diminished by one brutal fact: he didn't play against black athletes. One-tenth of the population, and surely a far larger proportion of those motivated to succeed in athletics, never had a chance to test Ruth. I hate to admit it, but it may be that the Babe was more George Mikan than Michael Jordan...