Word: drew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like there really is, unless you call social psychosis addiction. And it's not even like that, that you need a cigarette. And that chart your friend drew correlating the number of drinks to the number of cigarettes, with the threshold at two Heinekens, that's funny, and somewhat true, but statistically inaccurate...
However, the Pied Piper Fantasy, like the rest of the program, was still a startling break with the Symphony's staid tradition. The concert in general drew much disapproval from the audience. "This is what happens when John Williams conducts the Symphony," grumbled one woman afterwards, undoubtedly voicing the thoughts of many other patrons. Perhaps it is the purist in all of us that goes to Symphony Hall with a strict set of ideas, and perhaps it is because of these ideas that this kind of performance fails to realize our ideal of an authentic concert experience...
Harvard got on the board in the closing minutes of the first quarter when the Crimson man-up squad capitalized on a slashing penalty. Freshman Lawson DeVries drew the undermanned defense towards the rear of the cage and hit a cutting Ferrucci for the score...
Competition began driving up faculty salaries. Big-name professors not only drew top students but also improved a university's chances of winning harder-to-get federal research funds. (Competition for faculty can be fierce. Right now three professors at Penn's Wharton School are being aggressively recruited by other schools; one suitor is offering a 100% raise in pay.) To sweeten the pot, universities reduced the amount of time professors were required to spend performing such loathsome tasks as teaching undergraduates, serving as advisers and managing administrative operations. Courses proliferated: the course catalog for my senior year...
...collateral force ensured that tuition would not only rise but also rise at the same rate for comparable schools. Colleges in the Ivy League have always kept close watch on one another, setting their tuition to make sure no one school became so much of a bargain that it drew the best students just on the basis of price. Less prestigious schools set their prices in relation to what the Ivies charged. Says Meyerson: "We were building up a kind of notion about colleges and universities that the higher the price, the better they were...