Word: pooling
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...eyes, the Union Jack represents the 800 years of British oppression of my people and occupation of my ancestral homeland, punctuated by periodic genocides. The red of the flag is not nearly as deep as the pool of blood which flowed out of Ireland as Oliver Cromwell reduced the population from 1,466,000 to 616,000 in one decade in the mid-17th century. The white is not as pale as the faces of the millions who died during the famine of the 1840s while the British estate owners exported Irish wheat and livestock to pay for their extravagant...
While Assistant to the President Ronald L. Quincy, the University's chief affirmative action coordinator, agreed that a limited pool of qualified minority applicants exists, he charged that major universities "such as Harvard are doing very little to correct the pool problem...
Speaking before a crowd of more than 200 house members, faculty and college officials, Silber attacked education schools for having a "major role" in the training of what he called an under-qualified pool of teachers...
Harvard's prestigious name may have allowed it to maintain a quality student body despite the smaller pool. Nonetheless, even Harvard officials admit it's getting tougher and tougher to attract qualified applicants...
...Cabot Grill, for example, has an adjoining room which contains a pool table, a ping-pong table, three arcade games, a Foosball machine and a piano. The large-screen TV and VCR are in another room...