Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...avengeress: blonde Joanna Lumley, 30. Compared with her predecessors, she seems positively oldfashioned. Instead of pants or pantyhose, she prefers skirts and stockings and even packs her pistol in her garters. But Clemens attests that "when she had to kick a man in the teeth for the test, she did it perfectly...
Guizar is now waiting impatiently on his citizenship. He has taken the test, signed the naturalizations papers, and expects to take the oath before the end of April. But though Guizar will soon be an American citizen he refuses to attribute his success to some kind of "American Dream...
After that, however, standard criteria give way to a more subjective evaluation. Because the usefulness of test scores is limited, students must eventually be judged in the context of their own respective cultures. While a comparable problem exists in U.S. admissions processes, sorting out educational systems on an international scale is infinitely more complex. Malin devotes an entire office bookshelf and much reading time to pamphlets explaining the varying educational philosophies of different nations...
...These automatic alarms are sensitive. One way of looking at it is that these accidental alarms are a good test of the system," he said yesterday...
...read, and the scene shifts slowly to an elderly lady in a distant city smiling at a photo of her grandson. A voice-over intones the message: "P.S., write soon." That bit of soft-sell-strongly reminiscent of A T & T's familiar telephone commercials-is now being test marketed in Atlanta, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Columbus. It is part of an experiment by the U.S. Postal Service to boost revenues by getting more people to use the mails. The unusual TV promotion is the latest effort by the embattled Postal Service to lift itself out of financial trouble...