Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...completely unreasonable to expect that Blacks and Hispanics be proportionally represented at America's highly selective academic institutions. In the 1989 edition of profiles of College Bound Seniors, the College Entrance Examination Board reported that in 1988 fewer than 116 Blacks scored over 699 on the verbal SAT, and fewer than 342 scored over 699 on the math section. Fewer than 3000 Black students scored over 599 on either section, not nearly enough to give Blacks proportional representation at elite colleges nationwide. In 1988 Berkeley alone accepted over 800 Blacks as part of the class...
Bits of praise and verbal applause, Riveting, powerful, a tour de force, something of which to take note. In New York this summer, how was the culturally conscious student to discriminate amongst the multitude of "must sees" and "should not misses" that line the entertainment pages of magazines and fill the Broadway sky lights...
...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...
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...