Word: grading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...audience knows that she will, or there would be no play. Evy's two closest friends want to be loyal watchdogs, but their own shaky personalities make them abettors of despair. One is a middle-aged homosexual actor (Michael Lombard) who knows he will never make the grade in the theater. The other is a self-pampering narcissist (Betsy von Furstenberg), whose mentality is simply a cosmetic extension of her face. With inexplicable love and concern, Evy's teen-age daughter (Ayn Ruymen) by a husband long since divorced from Evy, filters a ray of redemptive hope...
Since November, long-term interest rates have declined more swiftly than at any time in the last century. Rates on average-grade corporate bonds, for example, have fallen from 9.05% to 7.80%. A smaller drop in mortgage interest rates, which now average 8.45%, has helped builders to increase the annual rate of housing starts by 59% from January to November. The main force behind the housing rebound, however, has been an astonishing rise in federal subsidies and loans. About one-third of the houses and apartments built this year received some federal subsidy, and next year close to half...
...problems with his Scrooge are not exactly his fault: in the first place he doesn't look like Scrooge. I've always pictured Scrooge as a shriveled up old man with small beady eyes and thin, bloodless lips, sort of like a nun who taught me in the second grade. No amount of makeup could make Albert Finney look like that nun, and I guess he wasn't perfectionist enough to go on a starvation diet. The second problem is that Finney can't sing. He may sing well enough in his normal voice, but he can't even manage...
Another purpose that Portugal had in attacking Guinea concerns the wealth of Guinea and the importance this wall play in determining her future position. Guniea possesses one-third of the world's known reserves of high grade bauxite, the ore which yields aluminum, as well as possessing diamonds, gold, and iron-ore. This wealth makes Guinea one of the richest lands in Africa and lends to the possibility that Guinea will be one of the most powerful of the African countries. With Pan-Africanism as a political base, Guinea is seen as a dangerous nation to Portuguese interests in Guinea...
...REMEMBER the first time I read "The Fish." I was in ninth grade at a new school, very timid and very scared, and I knew nothing about poetry. My favorite poem was "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which my father recited to us frequently because it was written about my brother's birthday. I didn't enjoy reading poems; they were difficult, and I didn't think they were interesting enough to make the difficulty worthwhile. But I had a young and very good English teacher that year, and he put "The Fish" in front...