"Sometimes it's very overt -- parents say, 'You must choose this major or this type of job' or 'You should not bring home As and Bs, only As, " she says.

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The "Killer Bs, " as the triumvirate is known in sci-fi circles, constituted a unique panel at the first Internet Everywhere CEO Summit in San Francisco.

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She gets As and Bs, dances like a future Rockette and performs in school plays and musicals.

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Of the 91 GP surgeries involved, 26 have scored the maximum rating of five As, four have five Bs and the rest are working on improving access, the health board said.

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First, these 1099-Bs are coming very late this year, as brokerage firms are struggling with the new rules.

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Coppola started his career making low budget films as the protege of "King of the Bs" Roger Corman.

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My friend who works in a college admissions office offers this example: A high school kid submits a transcript pock-marked with As and Cs, while another posts solid Bs.

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As a result of this goofballing, I graduated with low Bs and was clueless about careers.

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This makes it possible to record approximately 12 hours of terrestrial digital TV broadcasts or approximately 8.6 hoursof BS digital TV broadcasts in DR mode (recorded with the image quality exactly as broadcast), or store other long-duration video content, all on a single disc, while preserving the same high-definition image quality of the original.

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