1.   He accused the teacher of showing favoritism in assigning grades.

2.   Basically, the IRS behaves like a harried professor who reads only the first page of a lengthy essay before assigning a grade.

3.   A consumer advocacy group has given Georgia Republicans poor marks on its new congressional scorecard, while assigning higher grades to Democrats.

4.   A four-point grade-point average was used in assigning grades.

5.   But at the end of the course, she said, she was told by Ms. Garcia, the principal, to assign grades to students for music.

6.   Fleet, in turn, assigns letter grades to the performance.

7.   Grades were assigned to each HMO in a number of areas.

8.   It will assign a grade from A to F to every public school based largely on rigorous new standardized tests.

9.   Jones said he had also assigned humanities grades that appeared on report cards as music grades.

10.   Ms. Garcia denies she told Ms. Lindsey to assign grades for music.