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Word: 150s (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more helpful in increasing the pool of competitive minority applicants than access to the prep courses." He may be right: last summer 16 students took a Princeton Review course at Florida A&M, a black university; six sat for the LSAT in the fall, and five scored in the 150s--on level with the national average for whites. Christie Stancil took the course at North Carolina Central University after her junior year, and her LSATs went up eight points. Her score helped her get into Yale Law School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Even the Score: Test Prep | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...temptation to blame the plane comes largely from a confusion between experimental aircraft and ultralight planes. Both became hugely popular in the mid-1980s after a series of product-liability lawsuits drove the makers of conventional small planes--Piper Cubs, Cessna 150s and other single-engine aircraft--to the brink of bankruptcy and, in some cases, over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED? | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

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