Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...income tax returns of all the students being tested," says Kitty Kelly Epstein, who teaches education at California's Holy Names College, "I could predict how they would score and save millions of dollars." Well-off New York City parents hire tutors to give their kids a leg up, while poorer students depend on the goodwill of teachers generous enough to tutor them after school...
...Crimson reported the results of a survey showing that on a 1 to 5 scale, students rate Harvard's academic life at 3.89, extracurricular life at 3.9 and social life at 3.46. These are presented like three legs of a stool, with one leg a good deal shorter than the others, leading the editors to characterize the result as a "far from pretty picture of Harvard life" (Editorial, Feb. 4). Never mind that 3.46 is a good deal above the midpoint of the scale; it's lower than the other numbers. How serious a problem is this inadequacy of Harvard...
...Signified by a low waist, tight torso and straight leg, this gender-neutral garment builds bridges. According to Diesel, the jeans deliver consumers from baggy-jean-blah to snug-Euro-style. Female shoppers, raving about the loose comfortable feel, have done everything but hold the Diesel distributors hostage for this designer denim...
...tone of the meet was set Friday night with the opening 200-meter freestyle relay. For the first three legs the crowd held its breath as swimmers from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton matched one another stroke for stroke. But any hopes Yale or Princeton had of squeaking out a victory were dashed by senior Alex Kurmakov, who powered out an incredible anchor leg to win by three-tenths of a second...
With 14:57 remaining in the second half of Harvard's 59-44 loss at Yale on Saturday afternoon, Sturdy tripped over the foot of a stumbling Yale player and fell to the floor. She immediately grabbed her bent right leg and pulled it off the floor, burying her grimaced face in her knee...