Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...properly defined as a quota . . . It's quite clear that for some of the things that a medical school wishes to accomplish that the minority applicant may have qualities that are superior to those of his classmate. He may be far more likely to go back to [his] community to practice medicine where he's needed...
...former athlete and coach who became head of a shipbuilding company, considered himself a man who knew how to handle street fighters. Before he hired Martin-who had been dumped from his past three managing jobs-Steinbrenner closely questioned the other owners. The pattern, as he saw it, was clear: Martin each time-in Minnesota, Detroit and Texas-had shrewdly turned the players against management to his own advantage. "These other guys didn't choose to take Billy on," said Steinbrenner. "I felt I could change him." As a start, he got Martin to accept a conditional contract stating...
...principal rapist, as Forbath makes clear, was Leopold, King of the Belgians...
...merely one of the uncommon virtues of Swedish Playwright Per Olov Enquist's admirable and unfailingly perceptive play that he makes this point abundantly clear. Another virtue is that he shows all that was puny, punitive, fearful and self-absorbed in Strindberg's nature and at the same time draws an utterly convincing portrait of genius on fire...
...second score came towards the end of the game. A Princeton defender trying to clear the ball from deep within her territory kicked it straight up. Then Harvard's Janice Pelletier headed the ball. Then a Princeton player did the same. When the ball finally hit the ground, Pelletier used her foot to pass to Jennifer White who put it in for the score...