Word: lossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Against a projected white-student loss without busing that varies roughly between 2% and 4% over the six-year period, the average rate of real white loss quickly rose toward 15% for the first year of busing, then dropped some, to about 7% to 9%, during the next three years. Predictably, the highest rates of white loss occurred in districts where large numbers of whites were forced to bus into predominantly nonwhite schools. "The size of the flight is both large and long-term," Armor concludes, and he estimates that 30% to 60% of it is due to forced busing...
...been accused of exaggerating the influence of busing on white flight. His most significant contribution, the projection of white-flight levels likely to occur without busing, has been challenged. Above all, he has been reminded that the problem is complex, that nobody can tell how long white-flight loss percentages will stay high...
That, of course, had been Ali's strategy all along. When the fight had ended, Spinks simply and articulately summed up the reasons for the loss of a crown after just 212 days: "Maybe my heart wasn't in it because there are a lot of things on my mind, problems the heavyweight championship brought me that I didn't know how to deal with. But who knows? I don't know myself...
Saturday's loss certainly wasn't the Crimson gridders' swan song for this season. There are still eight games left to play. One thing is certain, though. No matter what Columbia's team does the rest of the season, last Saturday in Harvard Stadium will long be remembered in Morningside Heights as a Broadway melody...
Crimson quarterback Larry Brown, flattened by a blindside hit just after his touchdown pass late in the fourth quarter of Saturday's loss...