Foster, a fourteen-time Grammy Award winner (including the coveted Producer of the Year award no less than three times) with an unprecedented 41 nominations to his credit, erupted onto the music scene when his rock group, Skylark, scored the Top 10 hit "Wildflower" in 1973. ... Foster went on to amass a formidable list of production credits, creating such seminal hits as "Talk To You Later" (The Tubes), "You're The Inspiration" (Chicago), "Somewhere" (Barbra Streisand), and "We've Got Tonight" (Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton). ... In 1971, Foster relocated to Los Angeles, and within ...

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Since there is a correlation between BAS and connectivity in the recall of words form the DRM paradigm, I choose the same lists for both the visual and the auditory groups that have relatively equal and average BAS scores, as suggested by Roediger and McDermott (2001). ... The hypothesis of this study is that if the list used in the presentation of the DRM paradigm are relatively equal in word length and mean Bas scores, and are presented with equal amounts of time for each word, then there still should be a significant difference in the number of times the critical word is remembered when the...

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Others disagree that the knowledge from education does not necessarily matter, but the credit of education does. ... Jose Lara, 17, has earned enough high school credits to be in the ninth grade. ... On his last report card he got three A's, a B and 2 C's, and he wants to attend summer school to make up the 20 credits he needs to be able to graduate next year" (Rivera and Berkeley 7). ... According to the article, "Raising the Bar" implementing education programs can improve teaching skills and Hispanic academic scores (Wells, et al. 37). ...

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What they found clearly promotes Bhutto's argument, but it also serves as a contradictory rebuttal: "The mean score for political rights (on a scale of 1 to 7, with 1 being the highest level of rights) in the Muslim world is 5.24, compared to 2.82 for the non-Muslim world. The mean score for civil liberties in Muslim countries is 4.78, compared to 2.71 for non-Muslim countries. ... The way the scores are reached is not shown, there's always a bias of some level from whoever is crunching the data, and the validity of the data that is used is not certain. ... But to her credit, sh...

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Many Americans fueled their purchase of the new American Dream with credit cards, a choice that eventually affected the state of the American Dream" (How the American Dream Has Changed Over Time). As more people used their credit cards, they accumulated more debt, which later caused a recession over time. ... For instance, Redding reported research findings from Hong Kong managers of higher scores for 'social needs.' ...

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The measure of motivation through expectation was a multiplicative score of expectancy, instrumentality, and valence, plus it used extrinsic outcomes. ... These students were in a management class and for their participation received extra credit. ... After reviewing the scores, it was shown that the scores were higher on the post-training conditions than in the pre-training conditions, and the no-accountability conditions. ... Hypothesis four was also supported by the fact that when presenting accountability information before the training sessions the results were much higher test scores ...

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Since First Nations peoples were not equipped to integrate into this new system of production, most of them became impoverished and depended on the credit system and welfare which was also introduced by Euro-Canadians (Anderson, Dana, & Dana, 2006). ... Non-First Nations and other visible minorities instead register highest scores for physical abuse. For household indicators, First Nations register the highest scores: social assistance or other benefits (59%), rental housing (23%), one move within last six months (24%), two or more moves within last six months (21%), and unsafe housing (9%). ...

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This law holds banks and credit card companies accountable by prohibiting wire or credit card transfers to gambling websites or to the banking institutions of the website operators. ... Fantasy sport wagering is a contest where people compete for cash or prizes based on a scoring system that takes into account the accumulated statistics of professional athletes chosen as part of a fantasy team (Cabot & Csoka 1). ...

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Administrators focus more on dress codes and violence prevention, than they do on test scores and how we compare to other countries. ... This plan changed the requirements for graduation by raising the number of credits needed for graduation, raising the number of required core curriculum classes such as social studies, and introduced technology and computer science. ...

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On a scale from 1 to 4, with 4 being least important, the average score for "helping minorities" was ranked last at 3.46 and "helping your party" was ranked first at 1.66 in Republican votes. The Democratic House members scored "helping minorities" at 2.06 ranking first and "protecting yourself" at 2.03 ranking second (300). ... She also argues that the Republican Party did not receive enough credit in the participation of civil rights (23-31). ...

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Most people have given credit for the increase in the number of home schooling to the growth of fundamentalist Christianity, although no one will ever know for certain. ... "This may be why home-schooled children generally score quite well on standardized tests, averaging between the sixty-fifth and ninetieth percentiles" (Sadker). ...

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The relation as he sees it is one in which culture is subservient to and controlled by both invisible (I.Q. scores, statistics, polling techniques) and visible (television, computers, automobiles) technologies. ...

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The Medical Research Modernization Committee (MRMC) has reviewed scores of so-called animals "models" of human diseases and found that they have little or no relevance to human health. ... Despite animal researchers routinely take credit for virtually every medical advance; a growing number of medical historians are revealing that medical progress has rested on human clinical investigation, not animal research. ...

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Abstract The counseling profession is the youngest of the helping field. There are many different types of counselors available today and one is that of the school counselor. In many cases, the role of the school counselor is not always clearly defined therefore, some students are not aware of their...

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Statistics on educational achievement by race or ethnicity show that white, black and Asian children have better school rediness skills than Hispanics ages 3-6.Inlater education, Asian and white students still achieve higher scores than black and Hispanic students. ... This can be credited to the Pollyanna hypothesis, which suggests that social trends are changing and discrimination is eroding over time. ...

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THE ARTS IN CONTEXT HISTORY OF The Arts covers a wide verity of professions from Theatre, Music to Literature and the of it goes as far back to the cave men in preastoric times to modern day and even now new ways are being thought of and old ideas have been changed. American Film In 1896, ...

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It does not anatomize the literacy crisis or devote many pages to Scholastic Aptitude Test scores. ... Much of Japan's industrial efficiency has been credited to its almost universally high level of literacy. ...

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The Effectiveness of Background Checks and Drug, Personality, Integrity, and Aptitude Testing in Human Resource Staffing It happens to the best employers: illegal activity in your workplace, drugs, a sudden amount of thefts, a worker threatening violence, or some other kind of misconduct. The question is, "What types of prevention methods can be taken during the staffing process to prevent such occurrences?" The most efficient methods are through drug testing, personality testing, integrity testing, aptitude testing, and background checks. Today, taking a drug test is as routine as fil...

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It holds a freedom score of 89.4, making its economy the 2nd freest in the 2014 index; high levels of trade freedom underpins Singapore's competitiveness in the global market and encourages economic growth. ... Governments around the globe, including Singapore and Australia, responded to the crisis by providing billions in funding for banks, credit and consumer markets, and on some occasions, guaranteeing bank deposits. ...

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