Word: verbalization
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...points higher than a white applicant to be offered admission. In fact, the mean combined SAT score for Asian Americans is now the highest for all ethnic groups including whites. And contrary to charges that the SAT is culturally biased, Asian American currently score second to whites on the verbal section--despite the fact that half of these Asian American students speak English as a second language...
...Appel leads the way through this bound gallery, he delivers the heart and soul of any Lit. and Arts B course. Themes! Yes, themes abound, wonderfully packaged and ready for short-answer essays. Vitality and Birth are set off in verbal neon and illustrated with Lachaise's rather indelicate nudes. Like Nighttown in Joyce's Ulysses, the modernist future is promising. Molly Bloom is celebrated in all her fecund glory...
...Greenidge says there are just some officers on the force who are temperamentally unsuited to dealing with kids. "Not all officers can talk to children and take [their] verbal abuse...
Last spring, seven former and current minority security guards charged security supervisors Donald P. Behenna and Thomas F. Henaghan with harassment. The alleged harassment consisted mostly of verbal abuse and unusually close monitoring during shifts. Some guards also said Manager of Operations for Security Robert. J. Dowling ignored complaints against the supervisors...
...great period for defining the issue of slavery in politically manageable terms. But that involved a good deal of fancy footwork and casuistry. When he did not want to discuss uncomfortable matters brought up by Douglas, he loaded his sentences with what the political analyst Willmoore Kendall called "verbal parachutes," phrases he could use for bailing out of anything he said. Here, for instance, he answers a question about abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, the government's own area of direct rule: "I believe that Congress possesses the constitutional power to abolish it. Yet as a member...