Word: traded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes just too frustratingly weird. Crews also used to write a column called "Grits" for the pre-Felker Esquire, and the best of them stick in your memory like Georgia mud to your boots--an old, nearly-blind mule trader sagely discusses the art and artifices of a trade that is almost dead; a poacher takes Crews alligator hunting in the Florida swamps. And now in A Childhood, we have an account which blends the best of the columns and the best of the novels with the life that produced Crews' brutal imagination...
...strength of ETS may be enough to pressure the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into refusing to release a report that shows coaching improves standardized test scores, testing experts agreed yesterday...
Though West Germany continues to stand firm for free trade, pressure for protectionist measures is growing among other European nations. Last year the Common Market demanded that all its foreign steel suppliers freeze 1978 deliveries at 1976 levels. Also, 13 petrochemical companies formed a cartel in man-made fibers, carving up markets and agreeing to joint cuts in production. Says Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli: "I don't at all like the idea of closing Europe off, but we must do it just for a while on condition that we emerge with a more competitive industry...
...says one union leader. The National Graphical Association, which represents 600 Times arid Sunday Times compositors, machine managers and stereotypers, is refusing to come to the bargaining table at all. "Only a fool conspires at the destruction of his members' jobs," says Joe Wade, union general secretary. "No trade union leader in any industry can give an ironclad guarantee of continuous production...
Holloway's remarks and his organization's recent innovation reflect the hedging attitude that prevails among the major testing firms. The parental pressure--and influential votes that it portends--has led the Federal Trade Commission to get involved. Groups like the New York Public Interest Research Group have proposed that ETS make available test solutions and answers. Currently, students have no idea of how they have done when they leave the examination room. Skepticism also prevails over the use of experimental questions within the body of the test; questions of fairness in this area have also been raised...