Word: bypassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distributors we were working with gravitated to whoever earned the most for them," which mostly meant local firms. Some customers objected to buying cutlery made in China, because they thought the Chinese could not make quality merchandise. Lam switched some of her attention from art to distribution. To bypass the balky distributors, she set up a warehouse in Germany and contacted stores and boutiques directly to persuade them to buy the goods stockpiled there...
Beginning with the class of 2003, first-years will no longer be able to bypass their Science Core requirements with Advanced Placement (A.P.) test scores...
Since the Core's inception in 1974, scores of four or five on the physics, chemistry and biology A.P. tests have been accepted as bypasses for the Science B Core requirement. The College estimates that 15 percent of entering classes traditionally bypass the requirement in this...
...said that the subcommittee was planning to rescind the bypass for Biology A.P. scores anyway, having determined after a review that a person scoring a five on that test still might not be sufficiently proficient in the field...
...diet and exercise. Additionally, half took daily doses of the cholesterol drug pravastatin, while the other half took a placebo. After five years, the group taking the real drug was 36% less likely to have suffered a first heart attack and 33% less likely to have needed coronary bypass or angioplasty. What's more, their bad LDLs had fallen 25% while their good HDLs had risen...