Word: drop-out
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...prospective physicists and engineers, the first year at Harvard is rarely a pleasant one. The homework is difficult, the teaching is frequently poor, and the drop-out rate from first-year physics is high...
...cynical "drop-out" of the Social Studies and History and Literature Departments, I continue to wonder why Harvard forced me to choose a concentration as a naive, inexperienced frosh. Since my initial decision two years ago, I have changed majors three times and still receive the wrong concentration packets at registration...
Twenty years ago, a morning on the golf course was a political statement. To the tune-in, drop-out generation, golf meant Bob Hope and his U.S.O. tours, neatly pressed clothes, graying hair trimmed high around the ears and cut well above the collar. Country-club golf was a symbol of everything the young held in contempt, a bastion, perhaps the last, of the back-slapping big business deal. Golf was something for Dad, but not for the new generation...
McLaurin added that cuts would also hinder programs that "mainstream" bilingual and special-needs students, as well as drop-out prevention programs...
...merit schools" program, which would provide $100,000 grants to schools that have shown improved educational performance and reduced drop-out rates. Price: $250 million...