Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yale is part of a great family of second-bests--of institutions that almost tasted the fruits of glory but came up just short. Yale is the Salieri to our Mozart, the American Basketball Association to our National Basketball Association, the Betamax to our VHS. Yale is much like the now deceased Soviet Union--a place that had lots of tanks and other superficial signs of strength, but that, on the inside, was really a rotting carcass of mediocrity...
...Asian American Association (AAA) sponsored the event, dubbed the Cultural Extravaganza, with numerous other Asian campus groups...
...multi-group effort was a departure from tradition, said AAA Vice President Jenny I. Shen '01, as AAA is usually the sole sponsor of an annual buffet dinner to commemorate Asian-American Heritage Month...
Sophomore heavyweight standout Dawid Rechul is coming off a remarkable rookie performance, capped off by a 23-12 record and a sixth place finish at EIWAs. Finishing fourth this past weekend that included a close battle with Penn's All-American Bandele Adenyi-Bada, Rechul has shown that he is a force to be reckoned with. Freshman Joseph Linhart will also represent Harvard in the heavyweight division...
...little while. The isolationist presidential candidate may want to put a few more volunteers on his switchboard after Thursday's Commerce Department announcement that the U.S. racked up a $24.4 billion trade deficit in September - 3.7 percent higher than it was the month before. That's bad news for American manufacturers, who have lost a half million jobs since 1998 as worldwide exports of U.S. goods continue to fall...