Word: straight
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...former. The statistics in are article speak strongly: already around 40 percent of the student body has entered with a strong interest in the sciences--at a liberal arts college--and the students are talented as well. Harvard's winning the Putnam National Math Contest for the fourth straight year is just one example of the superior potential in the student body for sciences. So there is already a large number of undergraduates to work with who have a strong scientific skills and interests, but they are leaving the sciences after arriving here. That is why Harvard is mistaken...
...great opportunity to see where we're standing," said Holleran, who is playing number-one for the Crimson for the second straight year...
...Crimson had ruthlessly slammed the door on 27 games in a row--three straight matches--against Navy, Franklin & Marshall and Trinity. But Saturday, Cornell blurred the Crimson player's visions of shutouts dancing in their heads...
...Crimson (5-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy) cruised to its fifth straight victory with an easy 6-0 win over the Bowdoin Polar Bears Saturday afternoon in Bright Center...
Velikhov and Arbatov are, in fact, both advisers to Gorbachev. They came to the TV set straight from a stormy government meeting and brought with them a sense of reality that put The Blue X Conspiracy in perspective. While waiting ^ for a reply to a hot-line message to Washington, the Soviet team agreed that, however complex and serious, the problems in the simulation paled compared with those Gorbachev faces in the real world...