Word: interest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final score, 2-0, sounded like that of a soccer match. The school had since considered dropping football altogether. Players quit the team in droves. Only a handful of students showed up to watch Saturday home games. But at this intensely cerebral Quaker college, there has been a revived interest in the fortunes of the team, and a sense that if the streak was to be broken, it would happen against Oberlin: the Yeomen had lost 19 straight games going in, and 59 out of their last...
...definitely got my foot in the door at Microsoft," he writes in an e-mail message. "I'm pretty sure it wasn't having a one-day towel boy item on my resume that aroused Steve Ballmer's interest...
...There is a lot of interest in Harvard graduates as new hires," Newell says. "A Harvard degree is perceived as indicating potential but not guaranteeing success...
...impending departure of Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 and Sheila T. Russell seems to have sparked increased interest in this November's City Council and School Committee elections. Twenty-four candidates signed up to seek the council's nine spots according to an announcement yesterday by the Cambridge Election Commission...
...said he considers basic education a human right. "Education is the key to life," he said, and added that it was unfortunate that just as African countries' interest in aid for development is increasing, the aid being offered is decreasing...