Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under deregulation, most observers expect Harvard to be able to buy electricity at much lower prices than before...
...near life-size, black silhouette in Walker's current Carpenter Center exhibition features a black man hunched over a banjo, a long drop of drool descending from his distended lower lip. Behind him, a kerchief-capped girl reaches to turn the enormous screw-key sprouting from his back like that of a wind up doll. Recalling the tradition of black minstrelsy, the key also suggests a brutally-planed pair of scissors--a silhouette cutter's tool craftily inscribed within the silhouette. This image alone might be taken as an icon for the controversy surrounding Walker's work, as viewers question...
...says Liberty Bank & Trust, the Grand Chinarestaurant and many more restaurants and shops arein the process of opening on lower WashingtonStreet, in the heart of the Combat Zone...
...word, Texas race-normed its admissions process. Most admitted white and Asian-American students invariably came from the top of the national pool of law school applicants. Most black students came from the lower half of the national pool. In 1992, the median LSAT score of white admitted students was at the 91st percentile; the median LSAT score of black admitted students was at the 78th percentile. More than 600 whites with higher LSAT scores were denied admission before the first black was denied admission...
While it is true that our yield (the percentage of those choosing to matriculate) on Early Action candidates is lower than the essentially 100 percent yields guaranteed for binding early decision programs, it is more important for us to be confident that students we admit early are making better informed decisions about their college choice and financial aid options. Obtaining higher yields may have been part of the motivation for colleges that adopted binding early decision programs, but our yield of approximately 90 percent for Early Action students seems a scant difference given the gains students receive in return...