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Word: bend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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PITY THE POOR VICTIM OF DOWNSIZING. If he was upscale, he's got to downshift by downparing and downspending. If he's lucky, he can get a part-time job outsourcing. If he was downscale, he can forget about upclimbing. It's enough to drive anybody bend-arounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERILS OF THE SIMPLE LIFE | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

Harvard Model and National Model U.N.; HACIA Democracy Publications Director; International Relations Council; Harvard Bend; Harvard Model Congress/Senate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1996 CANDIDATES FOR HARVARD & RADCLIFFE CLASS MARSHALS | 10/3/1995 | See Source »

...some places, such as South Bend and Ann Arbor, the game is the centerpiece if a weekend-long celebration which consumes the entire school as thousands of alumni make a pilgrimage to join thousands of screaming students and watch their favorite sons vie for a national championship. Here in the Ivy League, of course, things are a little different. Far from seeing a great carnival, a person standing in the middle of the Yard might not even realize a game was going on, save for the occasional fly-by by the marching band...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: Balancing Sports and Scholarship | 9/15/1995 | See Source »

...every public statement they make, that they put football players in a completely different admissions category, where the athlete clearly takes precedence over the student part of the student-athlete. The index takes the admission decision out of the realm of the University honor and insures it will bend its academic standards a set number of times in the search for gridiron glory...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: Balancing Sports and Scholarship | 9/15/1995 | See Source »

POSTHUMOUSLY INDUCTED. PAUL ROBESON, football player, actor and singer; into the College Football Hall of Fame; in South Bend, Indiana. Robeson, an All-American at Rutgers in 1917 and 1918, was for decades falsely accused of being a communist because of his liberal views and efforts to win equal rights for blacks. He died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 4, 1995 | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

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