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...steadily from 10,382 applications for the class of 2004 to 6,552 applications for the class of 2007. Aisner attributed the decrease in applications to the fallout from the internet boom. “The number of applications received for 2004 was probably an aberration, it was the pent up demand after the internet boom so that is probably too high a watermark,” said Aisner. “Now we are seeing more of a return to normalcy with the number of applications being in the 6000-7000 range.” The admission rate...
...pent-up feelings about the election in 2000, especially as time went on. Ultimately, what I want the book to say is that all of the people we live with-the different ethnicities, genders, in different parts of the country-we are all in it together. I really believe that people who think the things that I think, and the people who have deep-seated evangelical Christian beliefs, are the people who need to be talking to each other...
...informal moratorium. Some 300 beef cows, 150 dairy cows, 200 pigs and several score of sheep and goats have been cloned in the U.S. Since no one is monitoring the situation, meat from their offspring may well have started trickling onto the market. "There's a lot of pent-up volume," says Scott Davis, founder of ViaGen, a biotech company based in Austin, Texas, that charges $15,000 to clone a cow and $4,000 for a pig. "A clone has to be bred for you to get back your investment." --By Margot Roosevelt
...scratch. Some would rather spiff up an existing residence. Karen Spiker, 58, a Louisville, Ky., art-gallery consultant, undertook a renovation in a home she plans to stay in for a while. Even though her two children, ages 34 and 23, are out of the house, she had a pent-up desire for a spacious home. She and husband Phillip, 56, a pilot, had moved eight times over their 26-year marriage, while he served in the U.S. Air Force. That meant living in military housing or renting or owning small homes nearby. After Phillip retired as a colonel...
...expedient. "In the post-cold-war era, the [Chinese] Communist Party is using nationalism as an ideology to maintain legitimacy," says Keizo Takemi, an LDP member who heads the Young Diet Members' group. "Anti-Japanism is an important part of Chinese nationalism, and has become an outlet for pent-up discontent among the young...