Its verdict on plans to replace GCSEs was typical: "trying to do too much, too fast … not seen any evidence to suggest that the proposed changes will be more successful than GCSEs … [should] pay the most serious attention to the concerns expressed by experts in the field".
The fraud uncovered this week – in which a college student sat for the test under the names of various high school students – deviated from such typical tries at gaming the system, demonstrating premeditated cunning that required false identification.
Speaking from the first time he watched it, McManus praised it for not being "your typical try-too-hard-to-be-weird production".
Figure 1 shows a typical try-out with filtered data and an indication of times for measuring feedforward activation, onset of reflex response and its amplitude.
A comment from a mother who'd been cleaning her "shy" ninth-grade daughter's bedroom when she found a printout of an e-mail message discussing heavy petting moves was typical: "I tried talking to her," the mother said.
The first episode was typical: Snooki tried to shield her boyfriend from the fact that she has hooked up with a couple of her cast mates, though the Situation, one of those cast mates, had different intentions.
Stokes's reaction was typical: he tried to persuade the Shah of Iran to invest in BL, not a ridiculous idea at a time when the oil producers were bulging with cash after the oil crisis of 1973-74 and even Colonel Gaddafi was investing in Fiat.
The typical Democrat trying to oust a Republican raised $51,290 and had $23,565 on hand by Dec. 31; the typical Republican challenger had raised $30,353 and had $12,064 left.
I was just a typical homeowner trying to get the hell out of the city".
"This is typical BP trying to get off the hook," said Ray Brandhurst, owner of a 47-foot shrimp boat.
At 17, these proto-feminist sleuths are both typical teenagers, trying to sort out their skills and desires.
