Word: standard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always, diving was a Crimson strongpoint. Senior ace Steve Schramm assured himself of a place in the March NCAA qualifying meet by winning the one-meter event with 300 points, his second consecutive total over the 290-point entry standard...
...abound all over the country for college, high school and elementary students. Their philosophy parallels the one that is used to justify sex education courses-talk about a subject that has been nearly taboo, and therefore mysterious and frightening, and everybody will probably feel better. One of the standard texts, by Gene Stanford and Deborah Perry, is even called Death Out of the Closet. The gifted fourth-and fifth-graders, mostly with IQs above 125, who make up Mrs. Shaak's little flock are simply dragging the dark angel into the Florida sunlight and making death almost ordinary...
...speeches, Bush takes standard conservative positions. He wants to limit federal spending and to reduce regulations, while cutting taxes in ways to increase investment. He favors decontrol of energy prices and wants a windfall profits tax on the oil companies with a "plow-back" provision to encourage research and exploration. In foreign affairs, Bush says he would take strong stands against what he calls the Soviet Union's "very aggressive quest for hegemony...
Rather than lay out $400 for an off-brand color TV that may have to be replaced in a few years, consumers are choosing $600 and $700 Sonys, the industry's standard of excellence, whose sales are up substantially. At Beverly Hills' trendy Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf shop, the all-metal $99.50 Eva brand coffee maker outsells by 3 to 1 the part plastic $79.95 Braun coffee brewer. Sales of Kodak's low-priced Instamatic cameras have been sluggish, but sales are really clicking for Nikon, Olympus and Canon cameras, which retail for some...
...symphony orchestra on top of the usual scheduling troubles of any film have generally daunted directors; Losey has shown that it can be done. It now remains for someone to do it, better--because this is not a Don Giovanni anyone would be happy with as a standard or even acceptable version...