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...January 9, 1999 administration of the MECT, 95 percent of the students who were repeat test takers (i.e., had failed before) failed once again. So any variance in test scores isn't big enough, or consistent enough, to push some of these people over the passing threshold. These poor souls also apparently all had the bad luck to get a bad proctor and/or a faulty tape both times they took the test...
...class grew. It was moved to Emerson Hall. Still, the gigantic crowd proved uncontainable. Finally, Hankins was forced into Sanders Theatre. When a course reaches the Sanders threshold, there is no turning back. "It's a horrible place to teach in. It's a barn. I'm not an orator," Hankins lamnets. "I have 450 students, the room holds 1200-not optimal. I just couldn't see anybody's face," Hankins comments
...threshold set out in the University's guidelines for proceeding to a full investigation of Berkowitz's case...
Democrats oppose the measure as unconstitutional: since it could pass with a simple majority, they see it as a backdoor way of convicting but not removing Clinton, without reaching the constitutional threshold of a two-thirds majority. To block such a measure, Daschle and the Democrats are sharpening their partisan shivs, threatening a string of amendments that would tie up the Senate chamber indefinitely. They could, says Daschle, submit the President's budget as an amendment and ask the clerk to read...
Rising FICA burden. Beginning this year, you will pay Social Security tax on the first $72,600 you earn--up from the $68,400 threshold in 1998. That's a 6.1% hike, a rate that is roughly double the pay increase most wage earners will see. For anyone whose income exceeds that higher level, it means an extra $260.40 a year owed to the feds. Tip: earnings stashed in a flexible-spending account at work are exempt from FICA withholding. In a two-earner household, it may pay for the lower earner to fund the account...