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...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...
...have this opportunity. Not only is there little differentiation among Berowne's three cohorts (played by Nick Wyse, Alex Pearson and Ian White) or among their four lady loves (Robin Driscoll. Alison Carey, Miriam Schmir and Nina Bernstein); to make matters worse, random comic pairs appear at intervals, exchange verbal abuse and eventually band together to present the nobility a pageant of "The Nine Worthies...
...fighting a major war to keep nuclear waste transports from Canada from crossing the 1000 Islands Bridge on route to the Aiken, Ga. "Bomb Plant" I scarcely recall "verbal abuse" at the Miller's Court Forum and bomb threats have been routine for 22 years for me. I never requested protection by the Harvard or Mass. Police nor was it needed I hope to return soon to Harvard and my native state. Those who watch the show this fall will have no doubt who won the debate, Stop encouraging cynicism.' Abbie Hoffman Fineview...