Word: majority
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't sure I wanted to look in people's mouths for the rest of my life," says Tomassoni, who switched his major to administration his junior year. "Hockey is a game I've loved since I was five years old. I couldn't help but start thinking about coaching...
...investigate. But the university turned down the agency's request to see the peer-review letters that contained evaluations of Tung's performance by her colleagues. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court bluntly told the university to hand over the documents. The decision was one of a quartet of major rulings from the high bench, which also touched on pornography, housing discrimination and criminal...
Last week's other major rulings...
...news on inflation dampened Wall Street's hopes that the Federal Reserve Board would continue to loosen credit. Those expectations had run high earlier in the week when major U.S. banks cut their prime lending rate from 10 1/2% to 10%. The reduction could quickly lead to lower short-term interest rates on many loans -- unless it is reversed by new inflationary pressures...
...Chinese were taken in by their government's maneuver. "Maybe ending martial law is good for international relations," said a history major at Peking University, "but there will always be soldiers and plainclothes police around." Despite Premier Li Peng's claim that "a great victory has been won in . . . quelling the counterrevolutionary rebellion," his government remains extremely wary of any revival of the protests...