Word: verbalism
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...company which writes the six-part SAT composed of verbal and math sections and a test of standard written English, holds a predominant position in the testing market. ETS controls well over half the entire testing market, which includes such tests as the Law School Aptitude Test (LSAT), the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), and various professional tests such as bar examinations. Because of its leading role in the testing industry, ETS, which takes in nearly $90 million a year, has been the center of much of the controversy and criticism associated with testing...
...instance, Donaldson is so busy tracking down news of a possible hostage settlement with Iran that he does not finish taping his stand-up report from the White House lawn until two minutes before air time. Still, Donaldson has discussed his reports and has gone through a kind of verbal editing earlier...
...Kennedy wants Carter onstage. We always seem to come back to show business. He wants to bait Carter to see whether he cannot get the President to impale himself fatally on some verbal shaft. Remember Richard Nixon and John Kennedy. Nixon had sweat on his upper lip, and people did not like his looks. Nixon may have lost the 1960 election in a few dismal seconds on the tube. There are a lot of people still around who wonder if that was any way to choose...
...father of two, Jacklin was a popular and tenured associate professor of philosophy who had taught at the college for 16 years. Last May the complaining women, who have not been publicly identified or interviewed, sent a letter to college authorities charging Jacklin with "heavy physical contact" and "verbal sexual suggestions by telephone." That wording left many on campus wondering how bad it might have been. Said one official: "Although the charges were not criminal, the conduct was traumatic to the women involved." Replies Jacklin's attorney, Mark Lipton: "His career is ruined, yet there were no grades involved...
...newly divorced actress (Marsha Mason), snap zingers at each other during a wary meeting, a breathless courtship and a marriage that almost fails before it gets started, conforming to the theatrical convention Simon has created for himself. But they have the good grace to be self-conscious about their verbal twitchiness. They understand there are more important matters at stake here. As a result, the movie is rather blurred-an owlish comedy, as it were. Yet, if Simon still does not quite trust himself to express his feelings fully, Chapter Two remains thought provoking...