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n. a hit and run accident. The sirens were blaring and a dozen black and white headed to a bam and scram over on Maple.

scram

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in. to exit fast; to get out of a place in a hurry. Go on, scram! Get out of here fast!

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Seniors & Money'' special seminar, by the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Los Angeles, will present information on how you can budget and save; how to get a copy of your credit report; fraud - including travel scrams, prize offers and home improvement fraud - and how to build a confidential family record and personal spending plan, 1 p.

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The four methods examined were: (1) a fixed threshold for all test items; (2) thresholds based on item surface features such as the amount of reading required; (3) thresholds based on visually inspecting response time distributions; (4) thresholds statistically generated based on a two-state mixture model (Schnipke & Scrams, 1997; 2002).

Setting the Response Time Threshold Parameter to Differentiate Solution Behavior from Rapid-Guessing Behavior