21.   The purchase is meant to let Pearson expand its electronic educational business to include testing services and the connection of schools to homes.

22.   The testing service sought to have the case dismissed.

23.   The testing services business provides inspection services for industries ranging from petrochemicals to environmental businesses.

24.   The testing service responded by temporarily reducing the number of times the test was offered and suing Kaplan for copyright infringement, breach of contract and fraud.

25.   The testing service does not flag those scores, the board said.

26.   The testing service expects that some of the myths surrounding the tests will dissipate as the tests become more mainstream.

27.   The testing service has been criticized in recent years for not making its test rigorous enough.

28.   Three days later, Weston and two other senior managers of the testing service were in Louisiana confronting a situation that was even worse than they had thought.

29.   Under current regulations the agency is not required to take the advice of an outside testing service.

30.   Yet as ETS edges more toward an enormous, competitive company, it remains a nonprofit organization, a status that critics say gives the testing service unfair advantages.