Word: 500s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there don't seem to be any other people around any more and it seems an awful long way to the station door and down and out ain't it like Orwell, it's scary here in the 500s on Tremont St. when the show is over...
...then, there is Maureen Murphy, who laps away those 500s with her long powerful stroke, which may very well make the difference...
Reardon says Harvard "tries to come to grips" with a minority student's background. If a candidate has what he calls "a lot of drive and energy" and gone to a tough school the committee will look at him, even though his board scores are in the 500s. If a minority student has gone to a prep school all his life, he'll get no special consideration...
Underlying all of the institutional buying is greater confidence that the economic recovery now taking shape will continue and that the market is not just enjoying a temporary spurt before the Dow worries itself back down to the 500s. Warnings that prices will collapse again can still be heard along Wall Street, chiefly among chartists. But they are outnumbered by newly optimistic money managers who predict that the industrial average will at least break through 900 by year's end, though probably not without a downward stumble of 10% to 25% in stock values at some point along...
Reardon said Harvard tries to "come to grips" with a minority student's background. If a candidate has what he called "a lot of drive and energy" the committee would look at him even though his board scores may be in the 500s, and probably would debate the case "the head off a pin." But if a minority student has gone to a prep school all his life, he'll get no special consideration...