Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, the question of people being denied opportunities by unfair aspects of tests remains. Some believe that standardized tests are geared toward white middle class society, putting poor people and nonwhites at a distinct disadvantage. The NAACP has consistently attacked test makers on this point. ETS officials claim and Jewett and Geraghty seem to agree to some extent, however, that without tests, many talented people would never have been recognized by admissions offices. "Abolishing tests would only hurt the people we are trying to help," Geraghty says...
...with the recent release of a Federal Trade Commission Report, stating that coaching does indeed help, ETS is starting to reveal exam hints in its booklets. Critics claim that middle class students who can take advantage of test prep centers, or who go to private schools, have a distinct advantage, while poor people have no such help available...
...Crimson squad went into Sunday night's final with a slim 329-328 advantage over the Bruins with a distinct disadvantage in terms of numbers of qualifiers for the last evening's finals...
...their flora and fauna. Since Columbus first gazed on what was to be for three centuries the main corridor for settlement of the New World, the islands have accumulated an asset more precious than all the gold that was not there: people, of almost every ethnic origin, melded into distinct and assertively individual societies...
...growing number of observers who are unhappy with the current system take a pragmatic view of changing it. They do not want to repeat the mistake of the reformers who drastically curtailed the power of party leaders and Government officials without adequately considering the consequences. There are distinct advantages to a more open system, however few people take advantage of it. Says Jonathan Moore, director of the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics at Harvard: "We have a very flexible, very pluralistic system with a lot of freedom of choice and diversity within...