Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer system, programmed to diversify the Houses by evenly distributing students according to field of concentration, rank group, high school background and master's preference, resulted in fewer than half of all freshmen receiving their first choice. Fifteen percent were denied all their top five choices...
...partial lottery pleased so many that in 1976 it was expanded into a full lottery based completely on numerical preference. Students ranked their choices, and the lottery went through each group's choices completely before passing to the next number...
...electoral majority that Republicans enjoyed in the last three presidential races rests on an unstable alliance between two antagonistic groups. The first, the fundamentalist Right, is a vocal minority that gets much recognition, but has little substantive power. The second is a group I call MBA Republicans--young, educated, economically conservative voters who are uncomfortable with the New Right's social agenda...
...dismiss councils of the past as unresponsive to student opinion. This year's perceived activism, he argues, is the result of a unique set of personalities whose influence needs to be institutionalized. But for every one who thinks the council is staunchly conservative, another feels it is a group of knee-jerk liberals. In truth it is a representative group of the student population that tries its best to make reasoned decisions on a case-by-case basis. Campus-wide election of the chair will not solve the council's problems...
...animals will be compared with a ground control group of four rats. Researchers believe healing will be slower in space because astronauts have suffered loss of calcium during flights...