Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make it sound (or look) as if everyone who is on welfare and jobless is black or Puerto Rican. A lot of them are white...
...stock's price later dropped to below $10 a share, but the bank did not demand more collateral or repayment of the loan because the borrower kept a lot of his firm's money on deposit at the bank...
...expelled not for cheating but for saying that he knew of cases of unreported cribbing. Recalls Ringgold: "When I left, I threw away all my uniforms. I was sick of the academy." After he lost a federal court suit charging that the honor code was unconstitutional, he "floundered a lot" until he entered Arizona State University last spring. Then Eastern Air Lines Chairman Frank Borman, the former astronaut and old West Pointer ('50) who headed the commission that probed the scandal, wrote encouraging him to go back. "I knew I wouldn't be at peace with myself until...
...very big question. With about half of last season's top players graduated, and the other half returning, there are a lot of gaps to fill, leaving the 1977 edition of Harvard soccer largely an unknown quantity. The absence of experience will not necessarily be bad, though. Says goalkeeper and captain Fred Herold, "It's going to be pretty much of a new team--but that's good after last year...
...SCOTT TUROW had gone to law school anywhere but Harvard, he couldn't have written a book about his first year. Or at least, he couldn't have gotten it published. It says a lot about the publishing industry in America that One L, all 300 pages of it, could appear in bookstores throughout the country: not satisfied with the coverage given the Harvard Law School in Paper Chase and Love Story, G.P. Putnam's Sons had to jump into the act--an act that doesn't exist, say, for law schools at the University of Wisconsin or Boston University...