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...from members of the school's newly formed alumni association. Reynolds' alumni are also visiting every public high school in the city, where the enrollment is 90% black, seeking to recruit students of promise. Says Richard Starling, president of the alumni association: "We're like a funnel. We want to move minority students from the high schools into the community college, and then we'll steer them to a four-year institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Back to First Principles | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...Funnel-web, n.: a type of venomous spider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Guide to Strine | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...simple concrete floor, for example, the architect, London's Foster Associates, suggested an opaque glass central plaza under the building that would glow, as Munden puts it, "like a carpet of light." The bank's directors also showed interest in a giant, mirrored sun scoop to funnel sunshine into the building's interior (cost: $20 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oriental Extravaganza | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...History concentrator compares the process of advancing through the levels of competitive play to slipping through a funnel. "When you're smaller, in the Pee Wees, says, there's a lot of kids playing, and as you go up there are fewer and fewer...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: An Authentic Beanpot Hero | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

Burke has held his own with the other players who have made it through the funnel to play ECAC hockey. "He's a good hockey player," says fellow forward Bill Larson, who scored the winning goal in the '81 final. "He's a hard worker and he handles the puck well...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: An Authentic Beanpot Hero | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

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