Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...addition, the students have suggested expanding the pool of qualified minority faculty applicants by actively recruiting and offering financial support to minority students considering the school's Ph.D. program in public policy...
Women's colleges in general have been squeezed by two powerful trends. One is the baby bust of the late 1960s and '70s, which has meant a shrinking pool of college-age youngsters. Single-sex schools get a crack at only half that decreasing market. The other is the declining popularity of women-only education. Currently, just 3% to 11% of high school women say they would consider a women's college. Taken together, these changes have made it difficult for many all-female colleges to attract enough students to keep themselves afloat...
...least Jackson eventually got his story to our New York City headquarters. Some barriers to newsgathering, though, are insurmountable. Not long ago, photographer Robert Nickelsberg inadvertently photographed the wife of a powerful Bombay businessman at a swimming pool while he was taking pictures for a story on the Indian middle class. Incensed that his wife had been snapped in her swimsuit, the man attacked Nickelsberg, twisting the camera straps around the photographer's neck. For 45 minutes, Nickelsberg and the assailant wrangled over the film's fate. Finally, after the man threatened to commit acts more terrible than any Nickelsberg...
...Tuesday, the day the theoretical-physics seminar met at FIAN ((the physics institute where Sakharov still worked)). I followed my customary routine, ordering a car from the academy's motor pool and leaving home at 1:30. At the Krasnokholmsky Bridge, a traffic-patrol car forced us to stop. From the front seat I saw two men get in the rear, flashing red IDs marked MVD ((for Interior Ministry)). They were actually...
...when the splashing subsided on Friday afternoon, Santa Barbara was on top, 23-3, and some were considering sending a diving team to scrape the Crimson off the bottom of the pool. Liz Brummond chalked up Harvard's first goal of the game in the third quarter when Santa Barbara had already scored three touchdowns. Tri-Captain Gillian Salton and freshman Skyler Satenstein rounded out the Crimson's field goal for the game with a goal apiece in the final quarter...