Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only Crimson player to drop a singles setwas Clark at the fifth spot. The freshman droppedthe first set tiebreaker to Patrick Sweeney, butfought back by winning the second set tiebreakeron...
...changes in racial percentages in enrollment at the University of California system, demonstrate just how badly affirmative action treated everyone, both minority and majority populations. The dramatic drop in black and Hispanic students accepted to UC Berkeley and UCLA shows the extent to which white and Asian-American students were discriminated against under affirmative action. Nevertheless, the staff finds it convenient to ignore that the number of black and Hispanics accepted at other campus in the UC system has substantially increased...
...Bill Gates is, and who among us doesn't want to emulate his success just a little? (Whenever I told people in the "real world" that I was taking time off from Harvard to work for a software company, half the time they asked if I was going to drop out and become the next Bill Gates.) I hear the Microsoft CFO is a Harvard Business School alum who recently visited the B-School as a guest speaker...
...thought filing your taxes was tough. Householders across Ulster will be checking the fine print on the 75-page Northern Ireland peace accord Tuesday, as several hundred thousand glossy copies of the deal drop onto doormats. It?s the beginning of a British government campaign to encourage people in the province to vote in next month?s referendum -- a campaign that stops short of calling for a ?yes? vote. ?The dominant political slogan here for a long time has been ?Ulster Says No,? so it can be counterproductive to just come out and say it,? said a Northern Ireland Office...
...Paris, Ho worked as a photo retoucher. The city's fancy restaurants were beyond his means, but he indulged in one luxury--American cigarettes, preferably Camels or Lucky Strikes. Occasionally he would drop into a music hall to listen to Maurice Chevalier, whose charming songs he would never forget...