Word: echeloned
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Most agree that the student body is remarkably homogeneous, both in attitude and background. Almost all were educated at upper-echelon colleges (including a sizable number from the Ivy League) and, because scholarship funds are sparse, few students from economically-deprived families are able to attend. The school has a minority admissions committee, which aims at a 10-percent level of minority students per class, but many of these drop out during the first year for either financial or personal reasons. The admissions committee has, however, consistently attained one objective: a student body 50 percent female. To be more accurate...
...want to immunize John Dean; I think he is too high in the echelon but?...
...MOSLEM REBELLION: We captured the main headquarters of the Moro National Liberation Front on March 11 in Batong Puti. We captured all their documents. They were in a cave that would have held 1,000 men. Undoubtedly, some of our lower-echelon officials have irritated the Moslems by not being flexible enough. For instance, when I proclaimed that nobody could carry a gun, some of our police and constabulary disarmed the Moslems in an alienating manner in markets and other public places. But one thing I'd like to make clear. We can handle any insurgency or infiltration...
Penn and Yale, two teams that battled for second last year, have enough talent returning to maintain their status in the upper echelon of the league. The rest of the teams have problems and are pretty much equal, clumped together somewhere below the Ivy big three...
...rise included marriages to the two symbolic princes of midcentury America: Joe DiMaggio, the province of Muscle, and Arthur Miller, the state of Egghead,--Mailer had himself attacked Hollywood, largely on the strength of his first novel, and having failed as a scriptwriter, wrote a good, serious second echelon novel about Hollywood. While no Day of the Locust nor a Last Tycoon, Mailer's Deer Park was grudgingly accorded its own stubborn virtues a decade after its publication. At that point in his career, Mailer found the challenge of the novel paralyzingly demanding. In the appraisal which followed the finishing...