Word: nixed
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...highest-ranking posts in the publication are the president, treasurer, and four other editorial positions. Three members of the incoming board are women, and two are minorities, one of whom is a Black woman, Crystal Nix. The Review's newly-elected treasurer, Caroline M. Brown '84, is the second woman ever to hold the post...
...Review's staff comprises 40 second-year and 40 third-year students, among which there is a high number of Harvard College graduates. There are "about 22 or so" College alumni, said Nix...
...students who enter the Review's writing competition are judged in the summer following their first year. Half of the new staff is accepted solely on the basis of performance in the contest, said Nix. The others are judged "70 percent on their grades, and 30 percent for their writing," she said...
...system contains the cloned expertise of platoons of specialists who approve unusual credit requests for the company's estimated 20 million U.S. cardholders. For the first time, the computer will decide whether to okay the purchase of, say, a $5,000 Oriental rug by a usually prudent spender -- or nix the transaction on the suspicion that the cardholder is on a buying spree...
...college decided to nix the proposed deal after a group of landowners challenged the city's right of eminent domain, which allows the local government to take land from private holders, without negotiation, in exchange for a fair market price. Private owners possess some of land upon which Emerson had planned to build the new campus...