Word: allowed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Visiting crews to Philadelphia know the Schulykill course to be a challenging one. The bend in the race course forces the officials to use a staggered start that does not allow the eights to know exactly where they stand until after they come out of the turn at the 1000-meter mark. That can make for exciting psychological battles between coxswains and crews while they attempt to gauge their positions...
Ahearn pointed to the example of corporations that market biodegradable products as being more environmentally safe, even through the current system of dumping trash in sanitary landfills does not allow trash to biodegrade anyway...
...then-department head Robert D. Putnam, Government changed its tutorial structure seven years ago to allow for more faculty involvement. Today, juniors can opt for either junior tutorials led by graduate students limited to eight students or faculty-led seminars limited...
...meantime, minority activists should not allow the minority hiring crusade to divert them from other pressing issues--issues which do lend themselves to student pressure on the administration and which are susceptible to quick solutions. Specifically, student activists should demand that Harvard immediately eliminate its explicit policy of giving preference in admissions to children of alumni, or "legacies." Legacy status improves an applicant's chances of getting into Harvard by almost three times...
...risks. Jumpers leap headfirst from bridges, cranes and hot-air balloons, from 90 to 300 ft. above the ground, with only a long nylon-cased rubber bungee cord to break their fall. Anchored around the ankles or to a body harness, the wrist-thin cord is long enough to allow a few seconds of free fall before it stretches, dampening the force of the plunge. The jumper sometimes hurtles to within a few feet of the ground before rebounding skyward like a yo-yo as the cord snaps back to its original length...