Word: flooding
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...sciences behind them in high school. These students will do anything to avoid the rigorous type of science courses that the task force recommends. Unless Wilson also intends to be the policeman for these offerings, it will not take students long to spot the least scientific offering and flood it. Such a path seems inevitable. The task force's answer to students who want to avoid rigorous science is that they should apply elsewhere. In some schools a core requirement could have that effect. But few students will allow a few requirements to dissuade them from applying to Harvard. Instead...
...time Pulitzer Prize winner who shouldered a full- time teaching schedule on top of his composing for a perpetual flood of commissions, continually amazed his colleagues and students with his energy. Although he began studying music seriously only as a 26-year-old freshman here, he graduated summa cum laude and returned a short year later to join the music faculty and conduct the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...
...study. Interest in Beckett is at once so sticky a wicket to most people that they turn away from even the intrinsic pleasure of his works, and at the same time so enchantingly open to interpreters that the PMLA index mushrooms yearly with new entries under his name. The flood of criticism is growing so rapidly that Richard Seaver estimates in his introduction it will surpass in bulk by the year 2000 the secondary work on any other writer in English besides Shakespeare...
Whatever the new regulations, the HEW policy will probably not flood Harvard with students, Dr. Cheever said. Of the 6000 who annually choose to attend medical school abroad, he estimated that 1000 will apply for transfer. The students will then be distributed in groups of about ten to each of the American schools...
...himself would give up his post as CBS's chief executive officer, though he would remain as chairman. To fill Taylor's job, he named John D. Backe, 44, the president of CBS's publishing division. Then, as if to calm ruffled nerves, came a flood of impressive figures. CBS's third-quarter profits rose to a record $40.8 million on sales of $525 million. That was a big jump from the same period last year, when the company earned $29.1 million on revenues of $461 million, and clearly pointed...