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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time, tuition has risen dramatically. Close to half of the undergraduate population at the College receive outright scholarships, and without the Campaign, it is doubtful the Faculty could have kept pace with rising tuition...
...experienced backfield of captain Andrew Lundquist, senior Lee Williams, and junior Chris Rollins, has allowed the Crimson to take both its 1998 opponents into overtime. Aside from one goal on a broken trap play in the heartbreaking 1-0 loss to No. 8 Stanford on Sunday, the defense has kept opposing teams scoreless...
...looks as if you're letting him down. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that retail sales rose a minuscule 0.2 percent in August -- a sign that consumer spending, the main underpinning of the U.S. economy's continued strength amid a world of troubles, is slowing down. "The increase barely kept up with inflation," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. "Clearly, consumers are beginning to pare back their spending...
...male executives, has in recent years become par for the course for women. More than a fifth of the 26.5 million Americans who play golf are women--an increase of 24% over the past decade, according to the National Golf Foundation in Jupiter, Fla. And the barriers that once kept them off the links during prime tee times (when the deals get done) have been dropping like Annika Sorenstam's putts. The result: one of the last bastions of old-boy networking has got into synch with the oncoming 21st century...
...glitches resulted in the shutdown of one essential SOHO attitude-sensing gyroscope, a failure by a computer to recognize that the gyroscope was not operating, the unnecessary firing of SOHO's hydrazine-powered thrusters, and a mistake by controllers in switching off a gyroscope that was working properly. "Thrusters kept firing to null out a roll that was not happening," explains NASA's Michael Greenfield, co-chair of the investigation group...