Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam: "You do not start a world war when a democracy throws its weight around facing a bully. World wars are started when the democracies are too unprepared, too cowardly, too reasonable, too frightened, too tired, or too 'humanitarian...
...people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. To the extent that a citizen's right to vote is debased, he is that much less a citizen. The basic principle of representative government remains, and must remain, unchanged-the weight of a citizen's vote cannot be made to depend on where he lives...
...professors through the Research Contract Office, is unclassified and publishable. But there can be little doubt that some professors' work--even if the public sees it--contributes at least marginally to the decision-making process in Washington. In that town, politicians and bureaucrats, not idealistic academics, pull the most weight, and they can do what they want with the research they have sponsored...
...Culver warned that students should not give too much weight to test scores in determining where to apply. Test scores are hard to evaluate even for medical schools, he said, and they will not tell a student much on his chances for success. The test, according to Culver, is not the most critical factor in deciding admissions. This is one reason why the deans did not think it important to release scores in the past, he said...
Yale's less restrictive grading system may have more influence on graduate school admissions than on the undergraduates. Graduate schools have always given top priority to grade averages and class standings in their admissions policy, now they may have to give more weight to other considerations. Only high-prestige colleges such as Yale and Harvard can make significant--or experimental--departures from traditional grading form without risking the chances of their undergraduate schools...