Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...merit scholarships this year, compared with 420 in 1977. The rising demand is the result of a declining supply. Between 1972 and 1982, the number of students with high scores (650 points or more out of a possible 800) on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SATs) plummeted by 45% in verbal skills and 23% in math, although the number of those taking the exams dropped by only 3%. In a time of limited resources, many institutions believe that future success depends upon attracting not just ordinary students but the finest. Admits Helen Horowitz, a public relations official at New York University...
...abortion. Where is Mr. Kurzman's mention of the fact that Rahman never responded directly to any of the questions asked him? Indeed, if the sponsors really cared about educating the audience, perhaps they would have directed him to answer the questions, rather than allowing him to engage in verbal gymnastics and anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda, thus avoiding the issue each time...
Richard Alpert's appointment as Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology and of Educational was to have terminated June 30, 1963. However, to honor a verbal promise made to him by Mr. Keppel before his resignation as Dean, on January 7 this year the Harvard Corporation voted Dr. Alpert an extension of his appointment in the School of Education for an additional year. At its most recent meeting it voted to terminate both the present and the prospective appointments effective immediately...
...stage is spare--swathed in a smoothing blue gauze--forcing the actors' charisma to sustain the show. Rosencrantz (Jim Torres) and Guildenstern (Steve Kelner) meet this demand; with exaggerated facial expressions and wild gestures, their compressed energy matches Stoppard's verbal swashbuckling, his inevitable bons mots...
...story is still the one featuring the dedicated runner, alone in a crowd of unbelievers. Everyone has his or her own legend about "I remember when I was running and... "The ending is often violent, in which the runner is pelted with unwelcome objects by gangs of philistines. Often verbal slurs are shouted at the runner from moving vehicles. In extreme hate cases, the moving vehicles are used to intimidate the runner...