Word: lowers
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...their only vacation of the year. Seldom so golfers, a breed of vacationer for whom low-season rates are made. Bad weather rarely keeps them from their game. And golfers can save twice over. Not only are packages less expensive in low season, but course fees are lower too. Those who want to venture away from the resort they're staying at to play a popular nearby course can save as well. Combined green-and-cart fees on the two Tom Fazio-designed courses at Wild Dunes, an island resort 20 min. from historic Charleston...
...removed that had helped minorities qualify for the top U.C. campuses, notably Berkeley and UCLA, students who once would have gone there were redistributed down to such less selective campuses as Irvine. In California it is known as cascading, because minorities are sliding down from high-ranked schools to lower-ranked ones...
None of this argues for a return to an all-butter diet. Margarines may not lower LDL levels much, but lower them they do. What's more, food scientists in Europe have developed margarines free of trans-fatty acids, and these are slowly making their way to grocery shelves in the U.S. Until they're in wide use here, it's up to manufacturers to give consumers the food labels they need--and it's up to consumers to read them...
...below in math. "You've got to be strategic and pick your classrooms," U.C. Irvine English professor Julia Lupton laments. "There are a lot of kids not getting reached." It would be difficult enough to get them to qualify under affirmative action, when schools could dip into lower test rungs to get promising students. With the end of those programs, however, the kids must slug it out in a highly competitive top-down system, with only the very best, across the board, getting into a U.C. campus. "We're talking about pushing kids to a 1200 SAT and 3.7. That...
Still, a record yield this year led to a lower waiting list acceptance rate than expected...