Word: gluts
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...school's offer of a fifth year of tuition-free classes. Elsewhere, thousands of college students have to shell out big bucks to go to grad school. The number of students who took the Graduate Record Examinations, a requirement for many graduate programs, jumped 18% this year. But the glut of applicants has driven down acceptance rates, which at the University of Buffalo Law School, for example, have dropped to 30%, from 60% three years...
...STEP 1: ADMIT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM. Mark Ellwood, author of Cut the Glut of E-Mail, calculates that white-collar workers waste an average of three hours a week just on sorting through junk mail. If you spend any more than that, you had better read...
...forbid, of course, a female lead.) But as the lead guys get more girly, so, it seems, do the women. The main female characters in FFX can’t hit; they only cast spells. Deadly spells, in one instance, but still. These worlds were invented for fun, as glut troughs for the human imagination, so why not invent me a shuriken...
...case with the glut of corporate trance, progressive house and “chill-out” tripe on record stores’ shelves, this strain of experimental electronic music is regarded by middlebrow hipsters as “intelligent” fare. Yet it owes everything to the hedonistic sounds originally crafted by inner-city youth...
...Crossing's international network seemed like the right idea at the right time?investors certainly bought into the conceit, driving Global Crossing stock price up to a peak of $60 in February 2000. As Internet traffic has slowed, however, that optimistic build-out has resulted in a fiber-optic glut?too much capacity and too little traffic. Transmission prices on some routes fell 50% a year in 1999 and 2000. Analysts estimate that less than 5% of Global Crossing's total capacity is being utilized. "They built a formidable network, but they got caught between rapidly mounting debt...