Word: testing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vacuum cleaner lulls babies to sleep, a professor lecturing from a podium causes college students to drool with dreams. There's something about listening to the monotone of an educated person saying important things for an important test that makes them think it's nap time...
...start-ups, Web-based companies, computer firms. Broadview's partners and analysts advise those tech companies on mergers and acquisitions, from finding potential targets for mergers to negotiations to finessing the final deals. It's definitely a niche market, where experience in the computer world is more important than test scores or grades. Shemmer never intended to find a job in the technology sector but was impressed by the company's casual style...
Being unable to answer that question, I am reduced to offering a personal perspective (hence the title of this piece). When I was younger I lived in fear of finding out I was not as smart as I hoped I was. SAT's and IQ tests made me very uneasy. I still become jittery when someone in the room proposes a brainteaser I haven't heard before. That is part of the reason why I chose to attend an American college known for its unwillingness to give students C's. But this plan failed because intelligence is evident only...
...Intelligent students at the University of Costa Rica can hardly expect to go through college without failing a couple of courses, some of them two or three times in a row. A friend tells me of a math professor who gives no credit if a problem in a test has an incorrect answer. He then goes back to look for errors of procedure in the problems where the answer was right...