Intelligence is ranked from A-C; with only certain pairings allowed to procreate; those with "deficiencies", and their relatives, are "uncertified for marriage".
Macaulay's protagonists work for the Ministry of Brains; Kitty is an A, Nicholas is "uncertified".
Teachers who are traditionally certified are no more effective than alternatively certified (and, in some cases, uncertified teachers).
As a result, the quality of recruits is falling; 60% of this year's were "uncertified".
In 2000, 40 Brazilian firms, including Tok & Stok, a big furniture retailer, formed a "buyers' group" to coordinate their purchases of certified wood, and jointly pledged to stop using uncertified timber by 2005.
In New York City, for example, researchers have documented that highly educated recruits from Teach for American and the Teaching Fellows replaced uncertified teachers since the introduction of NCLB.In addition, the accountability provisions of NCLB may have influenced teacher quality indirectly by affecting personnel decisions within schools.
Eventually, the Florida Supreme Court decided (4 3) to order a statewide manual recount of the approximately 45,000 undervotes ballots that machines recorded as not clearly expressing a presidential vote and accepted some previously uncertified results in both Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, reducing Bush's lead to a mere 154 votes.
It has been shown that private voting machine companies are using uncertified software, much of it improvised at the last minute.
The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution in July 2000 that banned the import of uncertified rough diamonds from Sierra Leone; the embargo was lifted in June 2003.
The move to Far Hills was precipitated, in part, by a need for a test range, a greensward that was eventually laced with buried seismometers, where a robot called Iron Byron-a machine that held and swung an actual driver-drove uncertified golf balls as much as three hundred yards.
This phenomenon totally ignores the vast store of untapped — and uncertified — creativity, expertise, and old-fashioned wisdom that resides in the population at large.
