Word: nearly
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That's complicated by district caps for the percentage of white, black and "other" students in each school. Particularly in racially imbalanced neighborhoods, students may be barred from attending schools of their choosing or even schools near their homes because of these caps...
...Crimson needed Peller's dramatic strike because in the 87th minute, Husky captain Brendan Faherty gained possession of a loose ball amidst a scurry in front of the Harvard goal and grounded the ball inside the near post, tying the game...
...officials ordered some 3 million residents to leave the shoreline in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. The largest such evacuation in the nation's history, it created a media frenzy and massive traffic jams, including a backup on Florida's Interstate 10 that stretched 200 miles. Walt Disney World, near Orlando, failed to open for the first time in its history. At the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral, only a skeleton crew of volunteers was left behind to watch over launch pads and hangared space shuttles, each worth a couple of billion dollars...
...avoid total destruction by a hurricane, occupants would need to get off the islands in advance of a major storm. And though four-lane causeways are being built to replace the two-lane drawbridges connecting beach to mainland, it is hardly enough. In Daytona Beach, Fla., where Floyd's near miss still did serious property damage, many people ignored evacuation calls. "Why leave?" says beach resident Jim Samuels. "You can't get to Orlando from here even when there's a good basketball game...
Success brought Reznor, now 34, his own label, Nothing Records, and his own studio, built in an old funeral home near his mansion in New Orleans. Music writers called him rock's savior, while awestruck fans--Goths, punks, heavy-metal heads and hard-core rockers alike--showered him with handwritten poems and paintings inspired by his music...