Word: ballpark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many students unfamiliar with Harvard's admissions policy incorrectly assume that poor scores and grades alone will keep them out of Harvard. As admissions officers note, one of the major purposes of recruiting is to uncover the student who does not realize that he may be "in the ballpark...
...difficulty in recruitment lies in channeling efforts in directions that have a reasonable chance of turning up "ballpark" candidates. Harvard's minority recruitment program utilizes a variety of techniques, but its first step is a selection process, a winnowing out based on Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores...
...cent of Cambridge's Spanish-speaking Cubans and Dominicans form the next largest groups, followed by a smattering from most Central American and even some South American countries. While there are hazards in generalizing about Cambridge from information gathered on Boston Hispanics, such statistics are valuable as ballpark figures, given the lack of studies specifically concerning Cambridge. In Boston, according to the 1972 community development association study, 70 per cent of Hispanics speak little or no English, and 35 per cent are unemployed. Welfare recipients comprise 42 per cent of the population, 50 per cent are under...
...million, and His Honor donated $100 of his own money. The Carter Administration put up $11.3 million in relief, and Governor Hugh Carey promised $500.000 in state aid. This will hardly dent the storekeepers' losses, which city officials estimated at $155 million (a sharp drop from their ballpark guess of $1 billion a week earlier). Merchants and property owners are also eligible for low-interest (6⅝%) Small Business Administration loans, but City Councilman Ramon Velez exclaimed: "The forms are so difficult it is unbelievable!" Nonetheless. 1,699 people got applications for loans, and SBA officials anticipated a total...
...slumping Carew makes plans to bunt even as he drives to the ballpark. His technique is far more effective than the superstitious rites of old. The Yankees' Jake Powell, operating in the '30s on the then widely held belief that finding a hairpin brought base hits, once followed a woman for three miles after noticing that a large bone pin in her hair was loose. When it finally fell, Powell scooped it up, rushed to the park and -confidence restored-tripled his first time up. Al Lopez, who was a National League catcher...