Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision to drop the cards, which was made by the director of the Office of Fiscal Services, R. Jerrold Gibson '51, also signals a renewed effort by that office to test computer-linked I.D. card readers that would serve the checking function
...also one of the most significant; Belenko was flying the MIG-25, which has never been examined by Western specialists. Called "Foxbat" in the NATO code, it is the world's fastest weapons-carrying warplane, having attained a record speed* of 1,852.6 m.p.h. and a test altitude of 118,000 ft.-outrunning and outclimbing even the newest U.S. fighter planes. Thus a study of the MIG-25's complex radar, engines and missile system could provide U.S. experts with new insights about the current state of Soviet aeronautical and electronic technology. Delighted by Belenko's gift...
...billion in advertising revenue, up a full 25% over 1975. Moreover, TV rates can only rise farther. Prime-time commercial time is sold out through mid-1977 at prices up to 50% higher than last year's rates. "This season," boasts an NBC executive, "we could sell a test pattern." It is the prime of the Boom Tube...
...students are coming not from the hills and hollows but from the cities. At Illinois, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Purdue and Wisconsin, more than 50% of the aspiring agriculturists were not raised on farms. Ohio State's William Flinn, a rural sociologist, has devised a test to measure their initial ignorance. He whimsically calls it "The Udder American IQ Test." Sample questions...
...education in the schools is, of course, more difficult to measure. Overall, 75% of the school superintendents responding to the survey say that the quality of education in their schools is unchanged, 15% say it has improved, and 10% note a deterioration. In Williamsburg County, S.C., and Berkeley, achievement-test scores have risen since desegregation. Other "beneficial byproducts" of desegregation often include, the report says, better instructional programs, a reduction in dropout rates and increased participation of parents in school affairs. At the commission's hearing in Boston; Jane Margulis testified that it was "very frightening...