Word: poolfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under the new exam school policy, the top test scorers comprise half the entering class, while to other half is made up of the top scorers from each racial group, in accordance with the proportion of that racial group in the applicant pool...
...Because we don't participate in the centralized AMCAS application service, our applicant pool is usually somewhat smaller than comparable institutions that do participate in AMCAS," he says. "In order to apply to HMS, students have to type out a whole additional application form...
...proceedings on closed-circuit television, though demand for seats is expected to grow keen once the trial begins. While extensive security precautions have been taken to lock down the area around the Denver courthouse where McVeigh is being held, the initial interviews of four potential jurors from a pool of 380 stirred little attention. McVeigh, in a blue shirt and khakis, smiled and greeted the assembled jury candidates when he was introduced. The defense had argued unsuccessfully that the trial atmosphere had been poisoned by news reports that McVeigh had told his lawyers he was guilty. But the first prospective...
...post than he was to the NSC. He is secretive by nature and never sought the limelight; a bulletin board used to hang in the White House situation room with all the press photos that described him as an "unidentified staffer." While at the White House, he preferred shooting pool with Secret Service agents to hitting the Georgetown cocktail circuit. But Lake has not been shy about asking the CIA to undertake covert operations. During the first four years of the Administration he backed sensitive CIA operations to spy on and help bring down kingpins of Colombia's Cali drug...
...turns out, a little too perfect. For Tom, though a devoted husband and a father to two daughters, likes having another man around the house--someone with whom he can share a pint of beer, a game of pool, a few confidences. For obvious reasons, Frankie has to be a little guarded in the last department. On the other hand, he became a terrorist because as a young boy he witnessed his father being gunned down by Unionist terrorists, and gruff-tough-sentimental-principled Tom fills an obvious need...