Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...normal year we'd expect 50 people...Typically you'll build it in that 50 to 100 people come off the waiting list," said Fitzsimmons, who held the final meeting of the admissions committee this year two days...
...number of wait list acceptances this year is in part a product of this year's record high yield rate. While Fitzsimmons said final figures have not been determined since some accepted students may defer admission, the yield is likely to be almost 80 percent...
Fitzsimmons said that at Harvard, unlike at Dartmouth, each waiting list case is reviewed individually during the final consideration period. Dartmouth, in contrast, typically asks each regional admissions officer to recommend three to five students to their joint committee...
Mary Maples Dunn became interim president of Radcliffe College yesterday as negotiators failed to reach a final merger agreement between the college and Harvard University before the initial July 1 goal...
...last, Washington has decided how it wants to contain the possible flood of litigation that potential Y2K disruptions might unleash. Late Thursday, a bill acceptable to the White House finally cleared the Senate by a vote of 81 to 18 after having passed the House earlier in the day 404 to 24. Caught between its big supporters in Silicon Valley (who together with the broader business community aggressively pushed for the legislation) and its friends among trial lawyers and consumer groups (who just as aggressively opposed it), the Clinton administration accepted the latest compromise bill after some last-minute wavering...