Word: parred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most conspicuous of the pollinators in crisis are honeybees, the pollinators par excellence among insects. Since being imported from Europe more than 375 years ago, they have spread rapidly throughout the New World. Honeybees typically pollinate 15% of the U.S.'s crops, but lately the bees have been hard hit. Already debilitated by a nasty mite infection, thousands of colonies were exterminated during last winter's unusually severe cold. During the honeybee heyday after World War II, the U.S. had nearly 6 million hives. Now there are less than half that many, and mites continue to plague the remaining colonies...
...matter of life and death, cinema was an instant sensation. In Europe it attracted not only lifelong fans but also visionary artists. On a par with, or ahead of, directors in the U.S., they created film art. Color, sound, musical scores, special effects, the chase, the epic, the sequel--all were pioneered by Europeans in the early 1900s, long before Americans made movies in a town called Hollywood...
...Gammons is quite successful in creating a cemetery and an artist's studio, with rain pouring outside the windows. A moving stage keeps the scene changes smooth, and is instrumental in keeping a complex play like this as lucid as possible. Unfortunately, the sound was not up to par with the great visual scenery of the play: A few lines were inaudible, and many more were impossible to hear for those sitting in the back...
...application was deferred admission, and I was waitlisted in the spring. Though I outwardly put on a brave face, cultivating school spirit for another college, I was completely crushed. When an acceptance letter from Harvard arrived in late May, I enrolled immediately, but did not feel quite up to par with the rest of the entering class...
...Crimson posted its best finish of the spring season, finishing third in a field of 17 teams at the Division I Tournament at The Country Club of Fairfield (par 70) in Fairfield, Connecticut. The tournament was played in a stroke-play format in which the best four-out-of-five scores were counted...