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...their meeting last June, the Council of Ivy Presidents voted to reduce the number of football recruits from 35 to 30—part of a larger trend that has seen the number drop repeatedly since 1994, when 50 recruits were permitted...
...silver lining in the current economic slump is that it has forced some firms to cut back on telemarketing, just as they have on advertising. Jack Keenan, CEO of Tele Resources in Duluth, Minn., has seen a 40% drop in clients' call-volume requests and has had to cut his staff from 225 to 150 since the end of 2002. Unfortunately, though, fewer cold calls may not mean a reduction in sales pitches. Some firms offer more goods and services when you call them, be it for plane tickets, banking or Internet service...
Absent from the festivities, however, was even a drop of alcohol...
...There was some pulling back from Title IX in 1990,” Kleinfelder said. “Schools started to drop women’s programs. It was appalling. Thankfully that’s all changed. There’s been a major shift...
...which Latinos were missing from grade ten had also nearly doubled, from 17 percent to 29 percent. For African-American students the rate had tripled, from a little over seven percent to almost 24 percent in just five years. These numbers are particularly disconcerting because fewer students who drop out of school now are returning, and those who drop out in ninth grade are least likely...