Word: fourteeners
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...Harvard Kennedy School’s associate director of student financial services, Stephanie S. Streletz, said that she estimates 90 to 95 percent of the Kennedy School’s CitiAssist applicants were able to submit their applications before Citibank cut the program. Fourteen percent of Kennedy School students are enrolled in the CitiAssist program this year, Streletz also said. Other schools affected by the move include the Law School, the Business School, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...other. The repetitive motifs carried through the work, but did not seem to have a clear sense of direction. Hangen had one last chance to turn around the uninspired performance with a soulful rendition of Elgar’s “Enigma” Variations. A theme and fourteen variations, Elgar’s best-known large-scale work was dedicated to his friends “pictured within;” each variation is a portrayal of one of his close acquaintances. The theme without a theme—the “Enigma” is never...
...decided to go to Paris: fourteen lines of pure Metro, speeding and screeching under some of the world’s most celebrated monuments...
...fourteen days the world will ignore Beijing's glaring problems in the pursuit of its gold. In other words, the Games will be business as usual. Michael Princi, Adelaide, South Australia...
...Fourteen years after the end of apartheid, its divisions and absurdities live on. Segregation may now be voluntary rather than legal, but South Africans still live in neighborhoods defined by skin color - white, black or "colored" [mulatto or descendants of slaves from the Dutch East Indies]. To address the iniquities of apartheid, the state decided it still needed to classify its citizens by race: The post-apartheid government instituted an affirmative action program called Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) to redress the massive imbalance of economic power in favor of whites. BEE legislation relies for the most part on apartheid...