Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...close to the Chief Executive, there is a moment when the problem can be solved with minor discomfort for the presidency and the people. But also at that critical juncture there is the danger that the President, by design or from carelessness, will transform the issue into a presidential test. That is a deep and dangerous morass. Carter put one foot in that morass on the afternoon of Aug. 18 when he choppered down from Camp David to give Lance his "Bert, I'm proud of you" vote of confidence. In those few seconds what Bert Lance had done...
...name is Jimmy, and he is a victim of cerebral palsy. Then there is Suzanne, a bright 16-year-old deaf girl filmed as she experiments with test tubes in a chemistry lab and learns how to rappel on a tree in an outdoor class. Suzanne's speech, which sounds to the untrained ear like a record played at the wrong speed, requires dubbing on the screen. And there's Lisa, a severely retarded eight-year-old with multiple handicaps. For her, just learning to eat with a spoon is a major educational triumph...
...matter what you tell the incoming sophomores," Rafto says, "it's a little bit more and a little bit harder than you think." Quite simply, it is a pure athletic test, one that drives runners to limits that they might have once thought unattainable...
...Summer School plans to admit more talented high school students--located through test scores--next summer. And since any profits the Summer School makes go right back into the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' budget, it's hard to see how anyone here during the year could alter the suggestion that it's hard on these high school students, many of whom seem to believe a summer in the Yard is an automatic entree to the College...
...Chinese tale tells about a tyrannical prime minister of the 3rd century B.C. who assembled his courtier to test their loyalty. He had a deer brough before them and proclaimed it a horse. Those who imprudently disagreed paid the price of calling a horse a horse with their lives...