Word: start
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...blew them out of the water off the start," Buriak said. "We were expecting them to smoke us off the start because their boat has been together longer, but they didn...
...fact is that, in spite of the generally abysmal level of American secondary school education in the sciences, many universities start the year with no shortage of quantitative-minded and highly motivated first-year students. And the introductory physical science courses vary little in content from one university to the next. It seems to me, then, that what particularly discourages science students such as myself here at Harvard is not the quantitative nature of these courses, but rather the sad fact that their instructors often cannot teach properly. Name Withheld Upon Request A Physics Concentrator
...publications are as ambitious as Wallpaper in soliciting diverse submissions, but a desire to represent student voices previously silent on campus motivated students to start the third mainstream literary publication, The Harvard Quarterly...
SOMEDAY the press will understand. Then everyone can understand that not all Asian-Americans are academic superstars. Then they will start seeing Asian-Americans as individual people instead of as members of a mythical "model minority...
...nothing like a random sample of the population of their native countries. Those people who are willing to consciously pull up stakes and move across the ocean to improve their lots are obviously exceptionally ambitious. This helps explain the extraordinary proportion of first-generation immigrants of all races who start their own businesses. Education and self-improvement are likely to be important values to such people...