Word: compressional
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Feldman outlines three problems in his letter: grade inflation, grade compression and grade inequalities.
"I do have some concerns about the compression of the grading scale," Feldman said. "I don't think that's healthy."
That is changing fast. Direct-to-home satellite broadcasting is making a fresh bid for a share of the television market -- not just people in the boondocks but city and suburban dwellers as well who already subscribe to cable. A new generation of satellites, sending out signals over the high...
Like the vampires, ghouls, rabid dogs and other monsters that populate his fiction, Stephen King seems practically unstoppable. New novels appear with almost supernatural speed, take a choke hold on the best-seller lists, and are transformed into movies that typically make a quick blitz at the box office before...
Last, it will "carry" well, because Lichtenstein is a master of elision and compression -- and this is why his paintings manage, against all the architectural odds, to defeat Frank Lloyd Wright's hostility to any picture unlucky enough to fetch up in the Guggenheim. The one thing it will not...