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...keel, yet the tanks cannot be filled simultaneously because it could lead to spills. Portz has to route, or "pinch," the flow back and forth to maintain a rough equilibrium. "Right now you've got to avoid having everything top off at once," he concludes in mixed landlubber jargon. "It's like filling a lot of bathtubs. You have to keep them from running over...
Senior Jack Cobetto led the Eli charge, as he did what is known in tennis jargon as "zoning." Cobetto opened by destroying Andy Chaikovsky in less than an hour at third singles, 6-2, 6-1, then he teamed with Bill Brady to clinch the team victory with an easy win at third doubles...
...majority of successful candidates combine academic competence with outstanding personal endorsements. For some, like the successful female applicant from suburban Washington, D.C., it is one special talent--in her case the ability to play the cello on a professional level--that saw her through. In admissions jargon this is known as "the special dimension...
Battling choppy and windy conditions on the Charles, the usual jitters surrounding a season's first race, and the B.U. heavyweight crew, the Radcliffe heavies earned high marks on all counts Saturday morning as they destroyed the Terriers by 24 seconds--in crew jargon, curvature of the earth...
...necessary, according to Ionesco, because the metaphysical truths expressed by the new philosophers will rise above ideological dogma and be naturally understood by the masses. These ideas will supercede even such bourgeois inventions as language and literature themselves, which Ionesco in his plays shows to be filled with media-jargon and platitudes that hinder communication...