Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tough weekend and we definitely haveour work cut out for us, said captain ErinO'Malley, "We are going to try and regroup thisweek, find some more speed and win against Yalethis weekend...
...these individual students is far less important to affirmative-action propagandists than puffing out their chests and boasting about admissions numbers. Consider: under affirmative action, nearly half the black freshmen at Berkeley don't make it. Under the new color-blind system, yes, the black freshman class is cut roughly in half (hence the headlines). What will happen to the less advanced half--those who didn't qualify academically and would probably have ended up among the 42% that drop out? They will likely end up at other UC campuses where they should do very well...
...contrast, Wegener feels that the Squareoffers a good deal to those who need a cut...
Furious yet helpless, Lidie decides to cut her hair, disguise herself as a boy, and travel to Missouri to find Thomas' murderers. Despite the incredible danger she knows she is getting into, her good sense always keeps the upper hand. "Sentiment was a deadly thing in K.T.," she explains to the reader. "Folks back in the U.S. didn't know that about K.T., did they?" The adventures that follow, including an attempted escape north with a woman in slavery, are told with such honest simplicity that to try and recount them here would be to extinguish the spark they carry...
Princeton is known as much for its eating clubs and elitism as for its methodical sports teams. Its men's and women's basketball teams pass around the perimeter endlessly, or at least until one of its opponents is a split-second behind on a cut, and its men's lacrosse team won a national championship by essentially boring Maryland to death...