Word: upward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...better," Tierney said. "We can have a clean environment and good business policy. We can stand for the upward mobility of a larger number of the people...
...women's team has at least three races left in their season, and given its upward momentum, the team has confidence as it heads into the Harvard-Princeton-Yale meet (on October...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), which is made up of both faculty and students, devoted a great deal of time to discussing the upward trend of College grades last year. Last spring, Dean of Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell circulated a memo asking departments to talk about the issue and report back to the committee...
...committee members are looking at the issue from two angles: grade inflation and grade compression. Basically, the grades' upward trend (inflation) leaves professors a smaller range of acceptable grades, making it difficult to differentiate between students...
However, the general upward trend in sourcebook prices appears to continue as publishers' charges rise. "Random House charges up to 10 cents per page per student, and Simpson and Schuster is now near 20 cents," Witt said...