Word: majorly
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Indeed, Harvard has seen a steady decline in its admit rate over the past several years despite minor fluctuations in rank. The College also introduced major increases in financial aid last year, despite being ranked first by U.S. News...
...just design and marketing. He's a very efficient operator," says Edward Scheetz, a partner at real estate investment firm Northstar Capital, which, with help from financier George Soros, has shelled out a few hundred million dollars for a majority stake of the newly incorporated Ian Schrager Hotels. For instance, nearly everything in your room, from sheets and towels to toilet brushes, is for sale. Schrager's even giving thought to opening stores to sell these wares. And he leases in-house restaurants and bars, which can typically be a major drag on hotel earnings...
Artificial turf now covers the field in about half of all football stadiums at the professional and major college level, as well as more than 1,500 high school and small college fields. AstroTurf controls the bulk of the market, a $50 million-a-year business...
...Texas, complained that he was throwing too hard in batting practice, he told them to quit whining. After all, this was a team that had only three wins in each of the three seasons before Morris showed up in 1997. But the players knew their coach's fastball was major league scary. So when he gave them a pep talk about following their dreams, they challenged him to follow his own and try out for a major league club. And they offered him a deal: if their team, the Owls, made the state tournament, Morris would go to a major...
...arrest was a major embarrassment to Disney and a shock to the Internet world. It also demonstrated the increasing efforts by the FBI to hunt down what the agency terms travelers, people who troll the Internet for impressionable children, trying to persuade them to meet for sex in the real world. "We've encountered a brand new kind of offender," says Randy Aden, supervisor of Southern California's safe squad. "You don't get the stereotypical bogeyman. You get doctors, lawyers, policemen, firemen--the guy next door." Aided by an infusion of $20 million from Congress in the past...