Word: relinquishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bulldogs stroked past the Crimson in the next half-mile for a two-seat lead, which they did not relinquish for the rest of the race...
...Crimson wasted no time jumping in front of the Catamounts in yesterday's nightcap. Harvard scored three runs in the first inning to open up a lead it would not relinquish...
...Harvard has a hurler of its own who might not want to relinquish her team's status as the best of the Ancient Eight. Sophomore Chelsea Thoke (9-9) has been a workhorse on the mound for the Crimson all season long and earned Ivy League Pitcher of the Week honors two weeks ago for her dominant weekend against Yale and Brown...
...hundred and twenty years after it was founded to give women access to a Harvard education and after more than a year of speculation over its fate, Radcliffe College is no more. Radcliffe and Harvard announced yesterday that Radcliffe will relinquish its independence--and college title--and become the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study under the Harvard umbrella. Female students will no longer be admitted to Radcliffe College; instead they will join their male colleagues in direct admission to Harvard College. The Radcliffe seal on women's diplomas may well be a thing of the past come the graduation...
...different story in the natural sciences where student involvement and professors' laboratories are closely wedded. For them, retirement has long been equated with the end of their research-- a lifetime of work some professors are unwilling to relinquish...