Word: field
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Many Asian-Americans are channeled early on into a narrow range of academic study, Kiang said. He said that 18 percent of the Ph.D.'s earned by Asian-Americans are in the field of engineering, 20 percent are in the physical sciences and 25 percent are in the life sciences...
...first half, Harvard shot a dismal 25.6 percent from the field, while the Cornhuskers hit 52.8 of their shots. Despite the presence of King, Harvard was able to grab 27 first-half rebounds...
...Japanese-made home entertainment system in its basic form costs around $80, with an option to buy extra features, such as a turbo joystick, phaser gun for shooting games, and get this, a "power pad"--a device which players stand upon and simulate running for track and field games...
What I'm talking about is making American society a truly level playing field. To do that, we need to take away the free rides that some people have come to enjoy, be they members of the Teamsters union who demand excessive wages, corporations that avoid their fair share of the tax burden or professionals who work to exclude others from competing with them...
This is really a corollary to providing equal opportunity. The American myth of the level playing field can never become reality as long as children in Roxbury and rural Mississippi do not have the same access to education as children in Greenwich...