Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rely much more heavily on high school records, recommendations of teachers and alumni associations, and personal interviews. Schools are far more interested in such traits as motivation, curiosity, self-discipline and creativity than in a student's ability to score well on S.A.T.s. So far, there is no test that can prove the possession of such intangible qualities-although E.T.S. is now trying to provide...
...consumed annually, leaving the home in second rank as a place to drink. But Britain's new stop-and-sniff law, which went into effect Oct. 15, threatens to change all that. It authorizes police to make a suspected tippler pull to the curb and take a "breathalyzer" test-that is, he must blow into a bag in which crystals that change color indicate how much alcohol he has imbibed. After a mere two pints of beer, or four small tots of whisky, he risks arrest...
...test has been trying for some 70,000 local pubs-and for the breweries that supply them. Publicans across the land are complaining of losing their regulars. During the first nine months of 1967, pub sales enjoyed a 4% increase over the same period of the previous year. But October saw a 6% slump. British brewers are now beginning to take stock, and what they see is grim indeed. Bass Charrington reported trade off by 4%. Vaux Breweries, losing money in Scotland, threatens to raise prices. Whitbread sees little prospect of improving profits in the year ahead. Bucking the Trend...
...down answers to questions on a long series of statements, spoken in everything from pure Bronx to a Southern drawl, on a tape recording prepared by the Xerox Corp. "I thought I was a pretty good listener," Jarman said after sampling the 21-hour session. "Then I took that test and found out I wasn't." Jarman has company. Staffers from some 600 firms have been taking lessons from an improbable corporate schoolmaster. Since it set up its industrial-education program in 1965, the Xerox Corp. of Rochester has cranked up sales of crisp courses in business skills...
...minute movie was prepared from over 50,000 feet of documentary film taken of a team of Harvard scientists working in the Cambridge Electron Accelerator over the past two years. It was produced for Harvard Project Physics, an experimental physics course in its final test year in over 100 high schools and colleges...