Word: upon
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...Those upon whom the plaster chunks and boards
When Gerald L. "Jay" Williams '03 first came upon a clearing where hundreds of newly freed Sudanese slaves sat under trees with emasculated bodies and tattered clothes...
...other words, under the current BCS system, playing an extra game against a bad team will always hurt a team's BCS ranking. Yes, the BCS rankings would have looked more favorably upon the Michigan football players if they had chosen to spend their weekend in Hawaii binge drinking and sunbathing rather than playing an actual football game. If the Wolverines had triumphed 73-0 over the Rainbows, the BCS would still have given them a slap in the face...
...second student this decade to die at a Phi Gamma Delta party: In 1993, over-intoxication caused Jeff Knoll to fall three stories to his death at a party thrown by the fraternity's University of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter. In July, after Krueger's death, Phi Gamma Delta imposed upon itself an alcohol free resolution; MIT should have intervened much earlier...
...access to the World Trade Organization and improve the prospects for its exports, China has agreed to far-reaching liberalization measures in its economy - but for the U.S. to enjoy the benefits of those changes, it had to end the annual practice of making trade relations with China contingent upon a congressional review of Beijing's political and human rights record. Now that both the Senate and the House have voted to do just that, President Clinton will sign the legislation and open a new era in relations with Beijing. But that new era will hardly be free of conflict...