These civil service crammers did not survive the Second World War.

But many crammers have moved on to business-related schemes, such as billing small companies for Web site design services they never authorized.

Crammers rely on confusing telephone bills to trick consumers into paying for unauthorized services.

Crammers became tutorial colleges and now 'independent sixth-form colleges'.

Justin Craig Education's courses are not crammers; it helps pupils recall and refine what they have learnt, he says.

The children have their radio helplines, their exam-aid videos and, if all else fails, their Easter holiday crammers.

Trenchard kept the long hours he spent reading quiet, but in so doing succeeded in providing himself with an education where the service crammers had failed.

Tutorial colleges, sometimes known as 'crammers', are privately run establishments offering intensive courses to prepare students for particular examinations, usually O or A levels.

Management, in an enlightened moment, extended the shop's closing time from 11 p.m. to midnight in recent weeks for last-minute crammers and other assorted latterati.

In May 1998, Bell Atlantic began refusing to allow middlemen who represented suspected crammers to use the Bell Atlantic bill to charge customers.

The only institutions specialising in university entrance are crammers for (usually) privately educated pupils who have failed to gain entrance to their university of choice directly from school.

Crammers first appeared in Britain after 1855 when the Civil Service Commission created the Administrative class of government employees, selected by examination and interview rather than patronage.

In the past, crammers have had a rather tacky reputation, but as universities have become more demanding, most tutorial colleges have changed the nature of their operations in response.

Crammers offered to prepare men of 18 to 25 years old, mainly in classics, economics and foreign languages, for success in these examinations and entry to civil service or diplomatic careers.

Crammers and other phone scammers, regulators say, have flourished in the current environment of expanding phone technologies and the deregulation ushered in by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

A recent cartoon in the Daily Nation newspaper here depicted a reporter interviewing the owner of a taxi company named Kenya Speedsters, Ramshackles, Crammers and Skull Crushers.

In order to prevent instances of cramming, certain members of the third party billing industry have implemented measures such as comprehensive due diligence screening and performance monitoring programs to identify and eliminate crammers.

Crammers in England and Wales today are almost entirely concerned with preparing teenagers for A-level and GCSE exams, to improve their examination results and get admission to university.

In addition, crammers take advantage of the fact that many people who might dispute an unfamiliar charge on, say, a credit card bill are afraid not to pay their phone bills because they fear their service could be cut off.

These particular crammers told customers that they were calling about "updating" a Yellow Pages listing; many of those who responded seemed to believe they were correcting typos, updating business hours, etc., not buying any new service.

No cosy warm Italian family life for him, he told Anna, school, university, crammers, lodgings, his happiest time had been a couple of years recovering from pneumonia with an uncle, the British padre, on the Ligurian coast.

It does seem, however, a pertinent warning against the kind of cultural hothousing of which Fielding was such an hilarious victim - and which still seems prevalent in the more desperate crammers and Oxbridge interview guides doing the rounds today.

Mr. Kalb, a designer for a newspaper in Pennsylvania, said he prefers Cliffs Oats, "the breakfast of crammers," whose ingredients include cinnamon, honey, Bilbo Baggins, Hester Prynne, Odysseus and other literary figures.

I'd feel better with Crammer out here and me inside her room.

This place was getting like a school crammer, she thought.

Crammer has been active with the women's section of the national team.

Your phone company should be able to help you identify and contact the potential crammer.

By then, a crammer had already set up a scam.

But it needed a full-time crammer to get you there and you're still below average.

He had spent two years at an expensive London crammer's and failed to pass into the army.

This is not an examination crammer or a technical text.

But clearly, more needs to be done to stop crammers from getting that bogus charge on your bill in the first place.

For crammers, that’s created a new avenue to commit their fraud.

Protect yourself Crammers are sneaky and they won't be easily stopped.

Lively was moved to a crammer, and applied to Oxford to read modern history.

The organisation has a regular inspection scheme; and the word 'crammer' is not popular among its members.

He entered a legal crammer, and in one year obtained a law degree, a course that normally requires four years' study.

The camera man mistakenly takes Crammer as the actor who is going to be in the scene, which he joins.

What do they teach in crammers these days?

Crammer et al.(1982) have written a particularly useful guide to physical methods of treatment in psychiatry.

Perhaps you will become less of a last-minute crammer and more of a scholar.

A heritage class is not a crammer's course.

These civil service crammers did not survive the Second World War.

Back in the front room, Gerry and Crammer wait in line.

Mrs. Crammer laughed again, and then there was silence.

The crammer's intent is that the subscriber will overlook and ultimately pay these small charges.

Whatever approach is taken, the better the local arrangements the less likely it is trainees will feel the need to use a crammer course.

They also study English, spending hours in cram schools to better their skills.

He is fired from his job teaching at a cram school in the process.

Nearly all students have some kinds of cram school to improve their skills.

The system has also led to a flourishing industry in cram schools.

But the cram school industry is still booming, with families' needs changing.

Children take weekend classes at Japanese cram schools so as not to fall behind in their studies.

She subsequently attended the same cram school just to be with him.

For the Prince, the past 12 weeks have been spent at the cramming school of flying.

In China, 9 of 10 middle-class children attend cram schools.

Cram schools often specialize in a particular subject or subjects.

Some of them are cram schools, also known as juku.

Great Neck is known for its own cram schools.

Touma's best friend, who is in this third year at cram school.

By attending a nearby cram school, he was able to better express himself.

But the popularity of India's cram schools has helped make a bad situation worse in the state education system.

In reality, Takehiko was her teacher at the cram school she went to earlier.

Teenagers put in long hours as they pack into cram schools after a day of classes.

Children often go to cram school (juku) from a very early age.

Popular subjects in cram schools include English, mathematics, and the natural sciences.

The Asian cram schools also offer more class time for the price, according to parents who have shopped around.

Students who attend regular after-school cram schools may study for four hours or more.

For some parents, the American-style cram schools are not rigorous enough.

In the evenings the children go to cramming school.

If they fail the test they have to go to cramming school.

A cram school teacher, he possesses the ability to see people's hearts in the form of a plant.