Word: flighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Robert J. Hoffmeister, director of programs in deaf studies at Boston University, says that the lack of deaf students at top-flight schools can be explained in part by an "attitude of low expectations" for deaf students in pre-college education...
Deaf students and advocates say that there are trade-offs to both, but that generally neither provides the optimal setting conducive to getting into a top-flight school...
Senior Gabriela Hricko won her flight in the singles matches, defeating Cynthia Tow of Boston College in the finals with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 victory. It was a well-fought match, but Hricko pulled away...
Vedica Jain, a sophomore, finished third in the flight, playing a strong final match to defeat Ana Paula Mores...
Students who need to get from one launching site to another when no shuttle is waiting would be strapped into the catapult while adjustments were made for wind, weather and any buildings recently constructed on the flight path. If all goes well, the student would then be flung over half of Cambridge to his or her destination, landing in a thirty-foot-wide catcher's mitt specially constructed near the other catapult. In addition to their regular duties, for the betterment of Quad-river relations, the catapult operators would be allowed to seize any river-dwelling student who is heard...