Word: upper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These problems may be even worse in upper-level courses--the courses that potential science stars take in their first year. It seems that there are even fewer quality teachers and interested professors in the higher level first-year courses and that the departments may be banking on the students' own interest to keep them learning and involved in the subject. Such an attitude would not be helpful when so many potential concentrators are dropping out. Indeed, many of the people I know who are science majors are in their science in spite of their experience with the department...
...Malacanang Palace grounds, even Aquino's staff was shaken. Said assistant press secretary Lourdes Sytangco: "It looks as if the rebels have the upper hand...
...existing order. "What's needed," he says, "is the establishment immediately of an interim government of experts, democratic experts." For their part, the Civic Forum leaders fear that what they perceive as a bid for power by Komarek might upset the delicate consensus that has given the opposition the upper hand in negotiations with the government...
...that means if we get a high lottery number, say in the upper third, we pick three `Prime' houses, or maybe three really bad houses if we have to pick our three non-choices. If we get a low lottery number, we should pick good houses if it's non-non-choice and three bad ones for regular part-partial-fractional-randomization. I guess the only way to be definite is to get a middle number and pick a low-advantage/non-offensive house...
...Deighton, there is no sign of change in his narrative's other engine of mischief, the mole-ridden, class-clotted English intelligence apparatus. A considerable part of the fun of the author's nearly endless chronicle has always been his seething contempt, and Samson's, for England's upper-class bumblers, and for Oxbridge leftists of the Kim Philby stamp. Readers who have followed Samson from Berlin Game will recall that his very upper-class wife Fiona, also an English intelligence agent, defected to East Germany and set up shop as a KGB colonel, no less...