Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...give a B+, I feel the student has done a tremendous amount of work," says Carol R. Saivetz. "It's not a slouchy grade by a long shot." Saivetz's attitude is common among graders. Threatened by accusations of grade inflation, tutors and TF's swim in aggressive verbal circles like sharks tasting blood in the water. Maxine Rodburg, preceptor in expository writing, sounds ready to bite. "In my class, people wouldn't see B+ as the average grade. I don't give them lightly." She adds, perhaps unnecessarily, "I'm not naive...
Although most of my ethno-political struggles have been on the purely verbal level, I have had some physical encounters...
...Friday, Federal civil-rights mediators descended on the town of Ovett, Mississippi to take on their first gay-harassment case. A lesbian couple attempting to found what The New York Times described as "a feminist and lesbian retreat and conference center" had met powerful resistance from the community, including verbal and written threats and a dead dog draped over their mailbox. Fears of violence brought the mediators from Washington to investigate...
Literally, dyslexia means inadequate learning or mastery of verbal language. Dyslexia is defined by the National Dyslexia Research Foundation (NDRF) as a "neurologically based disorder that inhibits orderly acquisition and processing of linguistic information...
...doomsday predictions he inspires, Chernomyrdin has both his rhetoric and behavior to thank. Since taking office in December 1992, he has dismissed the "improvisations" of free-enterprise thinkers like Yegor Gaidar as "poorly thought-out experiments," taken a verbal slap at "market romanticism" and disparaged privatization by comparing it to Stalin's forced collectivization, which killed more than 10 million peasants during the 1930s. As for the Prime Minister's policy initiatives, International Monetary Fund officials weighing whether to unlock $1.5 billion in aid to Russia are most disturbed by his willingness to pump increasingly worthless rubles into inefficient state...