Word: bulks
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...York asked Parthenon to focus on students who were two or more years behind their peers in accumulating credits toward graduation. "We had a hunch that these overage, undercredited kids were the bulk of the dropouts," says Leah Hamilton, executive director of the city's Office of Multiple Pathways to Graduation. That turned out to be more correct than anyone had imagined: 93% of dropouts had a history of being overage and undercredited. In fact, once students fell into this category, they had just a 19% chance of finishing high school or getting a graduate equivalency diploma...
...Nonetheless, the production manages to slip in the occasional moment of humor. Forbess gets credit for providing the bulk of the much-needed comic relief. Her crass voice alone—not to mention her donkey’s laugh—made me giggle more than once. Nicholas’ sarcasm and passive-aggressive humor also helped alleviate the production’s intensity...
...league is all but a shoe-in.Although he worked hard in the off-season and took time off from school to train, Dawson was snubbed by the combine voters, falling a few votes short of an invitation. Bouncing back, the Scarborough, Ontario native has traveled to meet with teams, bulked up, and upped his game. In one of his pro day workouts he managed a time of 4.16 seconds in the short shuttle, 7.09 in the three-cone drill, a 37-inch vertical jump, a 9’4 broad jump, and 18 bench presses.But teams have been concerned with Dawson?...
...bargaining power of America’s elderly, creating private middlemen in the form of a slew of private insurance plan providers who in turn bargain with drug companies. With less purchasing power than the whole, drug companies sell their drugs at higher prices than they would in bulk, driving up costs for the government. It is simply nonsensical that Medicare has far less ability to negotiate drug prices than the Veterans Health Administration or Medicaid. We are also disappointed by the amount of power the pharmaceutical industry, which vehemently opposed the repeal and spent thousands on the effort...
...said she signed up for GetConnects because, after participating in a minority job fair and several minority recruitment dinners, she was “dissatisfied with the on-campus recruiting at Harvard.” “It seemed as though investment banking and consulting were the bulk of what was available,” Mario said. “I thought that GetConnects was a great opportunity to look at other jobs.” At the moment, the founders are relying on word of mouth and advertising on Facebook.com to attract users. They plan to make...