Word: testing
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...Supreme Court will presumably have to deal with these conflicts, for several pending cases will test the Government's use of preferential treatment in employment. The Communications Workers of America have petitioned the Supreme Court to review a costly agreement between the Federal Government and American Telephone and Telegraph Co. By setting ambitious goals for the promotion of women and minorities, the Government violated seniority rights as well as the 14th Amendment, the union charges. In another case, California building contractors have sued to overturn a requirement of the Public Works Employment Act of 1977 that 10% of the federal...
...sort of backed into acting as a way of learning the theater." In New York in the late '50s, he worked at odd jobs, such as playing "bad cocktail piano" at a dim midtown club. After appearing in a few stock and live television productions, he got a screen test with Director Joshua Logan; another novice movie actor, Jane Fonda, auditioned with Beatty. Nothing came of it, but three months later MGM offered Beatty a five-year contract at $400 a week. He moved to Hollywood and, at 22, sized up the pitfalls of the studio system in record time...
...Beatty is used to having others theorize about him, though press accounts still test his not inconsiderable sense of humor. "I have never talked about my personal relationships?with women, my sister, my parents ?because these are important people to me. I don't want to hurt them by discussing them in public. As for my love life, I can't control what others say about it; it is what it is. I know that movie actors are overrewarded in our society, and that the press has to cut people like me down to size. So they come...
Thernstrom said the present format of general examinations is a valid one for "testing competence in a small area of history." The department should therefore be able to exercise the option of failing students who do very poorly on the test, he said...
...Race recaptured the epic proportions of yesterday, with renewed spectator interest fueled by the revitalization of the Yale rowing program. Prior to the Sprints, Parker & Company had not lost to the Elis in 15 years. There had even been talk of cancelling the annual four-mile endurance test due to lack of interest and the academic exam timetable...