Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was the Yale team, packed with 18 lettermen and a bunch of good sophomores, that was supposed to be the leading contender for the Ivy championship. Harvard's inexperienced line was going to weigh the Crimson down...
...know? Well, PRL is the closest thing Harvard has to a how-smart-are-you index, and because of that it is one of the College's greatest status symbols. Does ranking first in your class at Exeter make you smarter than a science type who gets a bunch of 800 board scores? It's hard to say. PRL is Harvard's answer to such questions; it is a tidy composite of your high school academic achievements and what the College knows of your aptitude...
...Hewlett showed the skeptics too. Weeks in advance, Walt had mapped out his strategy for this meet to go out fast and hang on. He stuck to the masterplan today and made the rest of the field look like a bunch of schoolboys...
Profitable Leaps. This bewilderingly diversified and remarkably creative company has become a darling of Wall Street by poking inquisitively into a bunch of unlikely products that stick, slip or scratch. Founded in 1902 to mine corundum for use in abrasive wheels, 3M struggled into the manufacture of sandpaper and then into masking tape. Its big breakthrough was the familiar Scotch Tape, which 3M invented originally as industrial masking tape. Scotch Tape still accounts for 17% of the company's sales, has led to 400 other varieties of tape, the latest of which, introduced to the public in September...
...appointment will cease just because the storekeeper has changed. The Council, a body without any responsibility, should have been abolished, with its functions given to the Senate, which can confirm appointments in a responsible manner. But since the people were under the impression the Council was a bunch of crooks they abolished the power, leaving the Governor free to appoint whom the chooses...