But in horse racing, the midterm report cards aren't nearly so precise.

They give students a midterm report, which is similar to a report card, in the middle of the nine weeks to show where to improve.

Could it be that the "wrong" thing, the real "failure," is an incomplete midterm report?

This is a midterm report card with an A grade for cities, but there is still homework to be done."

It is this journalist who is supposedly giving me a "midterm report" (his term, not mine).

Although he has a month left, analysts said the unexpectedly poor results at the catalog division might have persuaded him to deliver a midterm report card.

Worth more to me than Mr. Thomson's audacious "midterm report" was the critique offered by a moviegoer seated behind us.

In an unusual midterm report, he said he had made mistakes but supported his policies as a guide to take the country out of the recession and into the next century.

"We welcome the E.P.A.'s midterm report," said Geoffrey Ryan, a spokesman for the city's Department of Environmental Protection.

In the 1980s, Wallechinsky went on to follow with Midterm Report: The Class of '65: Chronicles of an American Generation.

Her midterm report card from the research center contained mainly C's and faulted her for leaving most land-use decisions up to bureaucrats rather than using auctions and other market mechanisms.

Successful Rocket Launch Raghib (Rocket) Ismail gets high marks on his midterm report card with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.

A midterm report card presented two weeks ago by Interior Secretary Gale Norton asserted that he was right on schedule, with $2.9 billion spent or committed, 900 projects finished and another 900 scheduled.

Those actions, among others, led a coalition of 18 environmental lobbying groups to give her some failing grades on a "Midterm Report Card on the Whitman Administration and the Environment," released early this year.

REBOUNDS Asked for a midterm report card on his rookie season, TOMMY AMAKER said: "I'm not into grading myself.

So, if this article seems remotely like a midterm report on Spike Lee, let it be known that American film history is crowded with the early arcing of brilliant youths who didn't quite, or haven't yet, grown up.

The findings by the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene amount to a mixed but mostly positive midterm report card on an ambitious list of goals, called Take Care New York, which was created two years ago.

In what was called a "midterm report" on a three-year project, astronomers reported at a news conference today that one team has found a universe age of 9 billion to 12 billion years, while the estimate for a second team is 11 billion to 15 billion years.

In between these comprehensive self-studies, which occur every six years, the college provides the ACCJC a midterm report, in which the college describes and analyzes its progress on each of the commission's recommendations, its self-identified planning agendas, and any proposed "substantive changes."

When the midterm report cards are issued in baseball during the break for the All-Star Game next week, you can figure that the Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants will be leading the class in the National League, and a half-dozen teams will be close in the American.