Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weakness in the lower weight classes--which have been hit especially hard by injuries--have put the grapplers at early disadvantages for most of the season. The squad is down to one healthy starter--Joel San Pedro at 118 lbs.--in the first four weight classes, and even San Pedro is having trouble coming up with victories lately...
Although 118-1b. freshman Joel San Pedro only managed a drew against Penn and loss to his Princeton opponent, he continues to turn in solid performances against more seasoned opposition and remains one of the bright spots in the lower weight classes...
...subjects evaluated four problems that have no right or wrong answers but are, in Kitchener's words, "the kind of problems most commonly faced in adulthood." Example: "Creation stories . . . suggest that a divine being created the earth and its people. Scientists claim, however, that people evolved from lower forms." Among the responses to this, one 18-year-old freshman brushed off anthropologists' arguments for evolution and came down on the side of the biblical dogma. But a graduate student in social science called both views "sets of ideas that have evolved from different positions . . . and so it's very hard...
...sales have shrunk by one- third since 1979, and its position in the worldwide business has fallen from No. 2 to No. 3. Firestone can only hope that as the first to slim down, it may also be the first to enjoy fully the benefits of greater efficiency and lower costs. Says Nevin: "The pruning we've done is pretty severe, but this company is beginning to grow again...
...said one major change the committee brought about was the institution of a 10 percent limit on the number of students whose grades would fall into the lower two categories. The committee did not receive enough support from the student body to propose the elimination of the curve system, he added...