By the mid-1970's, however, scores began to climb back up, mainly in the lower grades.

"Women are more cautious about entering these professions unless they have very high scores to begin with," she said.

But this year the scores began to go up.

Average scores soon began to commonly increase back into tens or hundreds of thousands.

But then that's an answer that probably won't come until the scores of court fights begin.

There is no reason to believe the current President Bush's approval scores will begin to slide.

The scores of the best and the brightest were beginning to slide as well.

Where were the lawyers, he asked, when the institution and scores like it first began to encounter serious financial problems?

That score, 2:59 into the final quarter, began the Patriots' comeback.

Stephen stood with Lynch till the score began to rise.