2009年12月2日星期三

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Religion’s Role at Service Academies Disputed

By NEELA BANERJEE

Seniors at the United States Military Academy celebrated after graduation on May 31. Several cadets have said religion was a constant at the academy.

The W. Edwards Deming Award (The Graduate School, USDA )

或許你讀過或聽過這本書
Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control (Graduate School, Department of Agriculture, Washington, 1939; Dover, 1986),

我到他們The Graduate School, USDA 的網站才知道它成立於1924年

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By what method? Examples: Numerical Goals Page 9. The high school graduation rate will increase by the year 2000 to at least 90 per cent ...

Before Audience of Cadets, a Sobering Message of War
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Barack Obama may be the one president of the television age who can make a star turn at West Point look like a graduate seminar at Yale.

turn

A brief theatrical act or stage appearance.

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graduate school noun [C] US
a college or a college department where students who already have a first degree are taught

graduation Show phonetics
noun [C or U]
when you receive your degree for completing your education or a course of study:
a graduation ceremony

graduate (QUALIFY) Show phonetics
verb
1 [I] UK to complete a first university degree successfully:
Lorna graduated from the University of London.
Tom has just graduated with first-class honours in psychology.

2 [I or T] US to complete school, college or university correctly:
After he graduated high school, he joined the Army.

graduate (ADVANCE) Show phonetics
verb [I]
to advance or improve:
She graduated from being a secretary to running her own department.

constant

Something that is unchanging or invariable.
1. A quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context.
2. An experimental or theoretical condition, factor, or quantity that does not vary or that is regarded as invariant in specified circumstances.