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UPDATE: As Jude Biersdorfer pointed out, Microsoft says you have to carry at least a half-credit course load to get the deal.
How to Get Microsoft Office at 91 Percent Off - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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UPDATE: As Jude Biersdorfer pointed out, Microsoft says you have to carry at least a half-credit course load to get the deal.
How to Get Microsoft Office at 91 Percent Off - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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"A kid who subtracts 57 cents from three quarters for the right change and comes up with 15 cents instead of 18 cents still gets half-credit."
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"Setting up a division problem to find one-fifth of $400, but not solving the problem — and leaving the answer blank — gets half-credit."
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He dropped a half-credit into the lock, opened the door and lurched in.
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"A kid who answers that a 2-foot-long skateboard is 48 inches long gets half-credit for adding 24 and 24 instead of the correct 12 plus 12."
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This fall, I plan on getting into Dr. MacLeod's Writing Fiction I course, a creative writing workshop-like half-credit (I'll also take the second part in the winter for the full credit).
June 27th, 2006 fantasyecho 2006
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I'm looking at future Honours Seminar courses right now, and in 2009 - 2010, there aer two half-credit seminars I really want to take:
WotB: Quotes, Primary and Secondary fantasyecho 2006
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One year (American League, 1969) the voting ended in a tie; our formula picks the top two finishers 1-2 in the league (and well ahead of anybody else), so we give ourselves half-credit for that one, and claim to be 81 percent accurate in picking the Award.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
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One year (American League, 1969) the voting ended in a tie; our formula picks the top two finishers 1-2 in the league (and well ahead of anybody else), so we give ourselves half-credit for that one, and claim to be 81 percent accurate in picking the Award.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
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