Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though coaches may say they find the admissions process frustrating, Jewett says it still aims to attract talented athletes as well as others with exceptional extracurricular talents. The different, he points out, is that Harvard does not distinguish between athletic skills and other talents when considering its applicant pool. Other Ivy League schools are more explicit in their consideration--ranging from Penn, which is reported to reserve a certain number of spots in its freshman class especially for "athletes," to Princeton, which only considers athletes as a separate group when judging the applications its admissions committee considers marginal. Jewett maintains...
...Public Policy program admitted 65 applicants out of a pool of about 240. Of those admitted, five did not choose to attend the program, and ten deferred admission to begin studies in law or medicine, he said...
Rhodesian security also depends on an increasingly important pool of perhaps 40,000 white reservists. Now even men between 38 and 50 are liable for service in "Dad's Army," as it is jestingly known. The growing exodus of young men reluctant to fight means call-ups are becoming ever more frequent. To strengthen the forces, over 100 hardened professional soldiers, mostly British and American, have been recruited...
Millions of jobless young people between 16 and 24 roam the streets of major U.S., Canadian and European cities, looking for work by day and cramming into bars, beer halls, sleazy pubs and pool rooms at night. "Hanging around" has become an occupation in itself, a dreary, unstructured existence with little money and even less fun. There is talk of sex, sports and cars, as usual, but the main preoccupation is with the hopeless job market and what governments are doing to stimulate employment. Those attempts range from President Carter's proposed $1.5 billion expansion of current youth employment...
...roar of angry brogues protesting the blindness of an insufficiently partisan basketball referee. James Joyce smiled benignly from several wall posters, four signs urged me to join the IRA, and behind the bar rolled Tommy, the spherical bartender who had taken enough time off from hustling customers at the pool table to come back and draw a few glasses of Guiness stout. Feeling serene, I sat down for a night of beer and blarney...