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...employers and the people who have them because they are full of recondite abbreviations. This becomes a problem when employers use them to screen applicants, as CORIs are typically used. People with CORIs cannot ascertain the accuracy of their records, and employers use them as an indiscriminate way to weed out applicants; they order CORIs for all job applicants and dismiss applicants if they have a CORI, often without bothering to determine what the charges were or distinguish between guilty and innocent, convicted or released. All this ignorance and misunderstanding violate the implicit trust employers are granted when the government...
...with each other to overcome extraordinarily difficult material. In extreme cases like the notorious Mathematics 55, “Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra,” all of the students may deserve A’s simply for making it past the first few “weed out” weeks. On the other hand, in a large Core class, it would be more reasonable to enforce a regular grade distribution.To try to create some administrative rule that accommodates all of the shades of gray between these two extremes and yet still fairly measures...
Tanya Garcia, 19, of Brooklyn also went off track at the end of middle school. A fire destroyed her family's apartment and left them homeless for four months. She landed in a large, impersonal high school, and quickly became disengaged. "I started getting into drugs--weed, drinking, cocaine and heroin." After two years of mostly cutting class, she had accumulated a grand total of one credit. When she tried to transfer to another school, "the dean pretty much laughed in my face," she says. At 16, she stopped going to school. "I didn't see myself having any kind...
Jamestown also was the first place to find a cash cow and an economic system for exploiting it. The Powhatan smoked a crude indigenous species of tobacco. But in 1612, John Rolfe imported seeds of Nicotiana tabacum, the Spanish-American weed that was already a craze in England. By 1620 the colony had shipped almost 50,000 lbs. home. Fifty years later, Virginia and Maryland would ship 15 million lbs. Tobacco and foodstuffs were grown on privately owned farms. Beginning in 1618, old settlers were offered 100 acres of land, and newcomers who paid their way were given 50 acres...
...going to be turned off by this,” Buttsavitch began. “But you don’t want the ones who would reject you for having herpes! Really, it’s a good thing—a screening device. You know, a way to weed out potential suitors...