Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another freshman, who experienced a verbal assault, noted that "after 11 p.m. there is no one around and there are lots of little places where people can hide...
After 20 years of slipping, they rose three points overall on the 1600-pont scale, from 424 to 426 on the verbal portion and from 466 to 467 on the math...
...deficiencies are stark, indeed. The state of Georgia, for instance, recently had to adopt a "floor score" for all state university applicants to try add boost standards. The minimal requirement: a student had to score 250 on either the math or verbal component of the SAT. Even so, state laws set aside a number of places for disadvantaged students who can't qualify. "That ain't much of a minimum," allows a state Board of Regents official...
Though conference planners hoped Unispace 82 would concentrate on practical matters, like establishing more satellite ground stations to improve global communications and finding ways of sharing earth-surveying data, the meeting turned into a verbal free-for-all. In gibes at the superpowers, especially the U.S., many of the 94 nations represented at the meeting voiced fears over what Perez de Cuellar described as the increasing and rapidly escalating militarization of outer space...
...heated rhetoric seems to have cooled. One reason for the verbal cease-fire is the realization that the dispute, which began with an attempt to put pressure on the Soviet Union, is playing right into Moscow's hands. "If the Kremlin had plotted this policy," said Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois, "they couldn't have done a better...