If a seven, eight, or nine is printed under the heading band this means that the pupil has passed all units but failed the exam.

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And Bennie recounted for me how, after a few weeks after the storm had passed, a handful of their band members borrowed some instruments from a school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and they went in search of an audience.

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Less than a year passed before he found himself leading a big band every Sunday night at the Greenwich Village basement club called Smalls.

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The band's liberal mixing of musical metaphors seems to have long passed the experimental stage, and now sounds as if it were already the most natural thing in the world.

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These oaths passed to a second generation, and the families of that early band of brothers now occupy nearly every significant position in the state.

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But by the time Brendan got to his first game in my brother's seats, five years had passed and the Red Sox, in their never-ending campaign to wring more revenue out of the band box that is Fenway Park, had built two more rows, pushing my brother's seats back.

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