Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peter Miller '84 wins the "Best Set This Campus Has Seen In A While" award with his meticulously detailed but never overpowering scenery. Miller showcases his Broadway-perfected skills with a fairly accurate replica of parts of the Doge's Palace in Venice and a romantic Venetian thoroughfare back-drop, complete with moving gondolas and steamships--a charming if slightly chintzy effect...
...City, where the four specialized high schools admit students strictly on the basis of an entrance test, black and Hispanic students represent fewer than 10 percent of those enrolled. Next year, when Boston Latin switches to a temporary race-blind admissions policy, some estimate black and Hispanic enrollment could drop to 13 percent; system-wide, black and Hispanic students make up 75 percent of Boston's 64,000 students. Selective public schools are often feeders into selective colleges and universities. And given the sad state of the city's public schools, for many underprivileged students these exam schools...
...would be in the best interests of both Boston Latin and its students, for the school to drop the pending appeal and instead concentrate its efforts in developing a broader admissions policy, such as the one employed by Harvard and many other colleges. By incorporating a number of varied factors--which include grades, socioeconomic background, extracurricular interests and race--these admissions programs recognize individual achievement and potential rather than simple racial or ethnic classifications...
...warned that the dramatic 40 percent decrease of welfare rolls across the nation, as well as Massachusetts' drop, could be attributed to the creation of new low-wage paying jobs--which are far from stable...
...weren't sharp and we need to not wait until the third period because sooner or later we're going to put ourselves in a hole that we can't dig out of," Stone said. "We need to be sharp from the first drop of the puck until the final whistle...