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...particular, they have had to adjust to a student life far different from China's. In the PRC, until very recently, getting into college was an achievement limited to about 3 per cent of the population, chosen principally by a nationwide exam given to high school seniors. Students not scoring high enough were often "obliged" to take factory jobs or work on farms...
Based on those statements, the report continues, "An admissions policy at Harvard that took race into account in 'adjusting' the scores of blacks to reflect their later academic performance would adjust scores downward...
...Villiers says the Johannesburg arrests do not lead her to doubt South Africa's potential for peaceful reform. "You have to give people time to adjust," she explains. Positive that gradualism will bring change to South Africa, de Villiers has come to grips with Afrikaaner recalcitrance and foresees a workable peace in the future...
...They said they wanted to adjust the economics, and I told them that was all right," Sullivan said...
Wayne Meisel, the team's manager, said the astroturf "frustrated" the team's play. Penn was definitely on top of things from the start and Harvard had to adjust to the field, Meisel said, adding, "we weren't out-hustled, we were outpsyched...