Word: gainful
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...Harvard accepts one-third of legacy applicants—more than three times its overall admissions rate. The federal Office for Civil Rights, in a 1990 review of Harvard’s admissions practices, found that legacy preferences allowed applicants with “weaker credentials” to gain acceptance to Harvard. Tell any Harvard student that you’re a beneficiary of legacy admissions and he’ll assume that you’re a polo-playing Porcellian Club member with gentleman?...
...dealt with what we astronomers really do rather than the mere semantic debate over whether Pluto is a planet or a dwarf planet. Michael Lemonick wonderfully conveyed the feeling of using a big telescope and showed how astronomers work together observing in different parts of the spectrum to gain a complete picture of that early stage of our universe. Jay M. Pasachoff Director, Hopkins Observatory Williams College Williamstown, Massachusetts, U.S. The article on the birth of stars was a breath of fresh air at a time when too many people are busy counting planets on the head...
...governing specific sectors in which foreign firms are active: heavy industries, express mail, banking and direct selling. With the five-year compliance period negotiated when China was admitted to the World Trade Organization due to end in a few months, he says it's critical that barriers lowered to gain WTO entry "should not be raised again in the form of technical regulation, industrial policies or other means...
...trust the fund as a lender, members must feel adequately represented. A central focus of reform today is the restructuring of voting power to better reflect changes in economic importance, as well as to give small poor countries more of a say. This is no easy task. A gain for some will mean a loss for others. But if reforms enacted in Singapore bolster confidence in the IMF, everybody wins?and future anniversaries should be happy affairs...
...signal-caller, junior Chris Pizzotti. That all ended on one play. With the Crimson trailing 7-0 and driving early in the second quarter against the Crusaders, the depth chart suffered its most recent setback. Only this time—when Pizzotti scrambled for a seven-yard gain before taking a questionable sideline hit that left him visibly shaken—Harvard didn’t have the luxury of additional practice reps or time for nerves to settle. “We knew we would have to respond to adversity in some way,” Crimson coach...