And the two secondary schools it was running as of the start of this year saw dramatic falls in headline GCSE results when provisional data was published last month.
Not for the first time, a statement bellowed forthrightly in a headline became rather more muffled and provisional in the text below it, which carefully avoided having me say directly that I was criticising the Man Booker shortlist.
The dissidents also showed they had learnt one key lesson from the provisionals, who secured worldwide headlines with "spectacular" bombings on mainland Britain between 1973 and 1996.
As recently as last month, Yellen gave a speech to the National Association for Business Economics in which she made a provisional case for sticking with an expansionary policy even after the headline unemployment rate comes down, noting, "A decline in the unemployment rate could, for example, primarily reflect the exit from the labor force of discouraged job seekers".
Le Guin appears to have the most fun with her investigations of sex and gender — the ghettoization of men on Seggri, the elaborate marital quartets on the Planet O — but the costs of revolution, religious bliss, and technology are also provocatively explored, and one returns to the current headlines with a fresh awareness of the exotic, provisional nature of human arrangements.
Headline inflation in February is expected to be 2.3%, according to provisional estimates.America's economy grew at an annual rate of 1.6% in the last quarter of 2005, not 1.1% as originally estimated.
The headline inflation rate in the euro area was revised up to 3.7% from a provisional estimate of 3.6%.
LAUDERHILL, Fla .— In the chaos that has swirled over the vote count in Florida following Tuesday's midterm elections, one headline made its way ominously around the state: A teacher in Broward County had discovered a box labeled "provisional ballots," left behind at the polling place at her school.
They are inherently provisional.
