Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...banks of the Tigris. At 1 a.m., on the other side of the river, some 30 young men watch Indian movies on TV in a yard behind the city's open-air fish restaurants. In the noonday sun, Irish and Dutch hostages play water polo in the hotel pool. Relatively few soldiers patrol the streets. A couple of hundred at most man defense and ministerial facilities, bridges and the outer gates of the presidential palace. In the past two weeks Saddam has not made a public appearance, but he pops up often on TV, greeting the latest Arab dignitary...
...course, a privately funded women's center would not be objection-able. It is the right of any student organization to pool their own resources for their own purposes. As far as the University is concerned, women's and gender concerns should be incorporated into all aspects of the Harvard experience; for example, as part of the curriculum or in an inclusive student center. They should not be given their own tuition-funded and Harvard sanctioned fiefdom...
...play, selected from a pool of six finalists, depicts "a rich era of scandal, triumph, defeat, and fun," gushed Pudding President Maurice A. Rocca '91, at the announcement of the selection committee's decision yesterday...
...enemies. Colonel Goosen? Dead. Colonel Van der Merwe? Retired. Captain Hansen? Transferred. Captain Schoeman? Somewhere up- country. I already knew that Lieut. Jan Marais, who had once mailed an acid-tainted T shirt to my five-year-old daughter Mary, had been found drowned in his own swimming pool...
...their vows? For one thing, some psychologists believe, those who are drawn to the priesthood today are more likely to be psychologically immature, homosexual or unsure of their sexuality. Forty years ago, a religious life was seen as both a higher calling and a route to advancement. But the pool of candidates for the priesthood has been steadily shrinking, especially since the advent of the sexual revolution in the '60s. Since 1965, the number of seminarians has dropped from 49,000 to 6,200. Moreover, seminary instructors have focused on spiritual training and have ignored normal human sexual development...