Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Residents at the meeting said one abuse is non-profit organizations that falsely claim to be schools, such as one group that is building a structure with an underground pool, squash court and a sunken Japanese garden...
...surrounding the mansion are a dozen life-size male and female statues, some of them nude renderings of great anatomical precision. Urns filled with pink, blue and orange plastic flowers line the property's stone and wrought-iron fence. A mosque is being built next to the swimming pool. Still to come are a basement discotheque and kennel space for twelve Great Danes (although a Beverly Hills local ordinance forbids any homeowner to keep more than four dogs at a time...
...record total of 12,712 high school students applied, including an all-time high of 4532 female applicants. The committee admitted 18 per cent of the female applicant pool and 16 per cent of the male applicant pool...
Admissions officers say about one-half the applicant pool is clearly admissible. They rely on what admissions officers call the "tip factor"--a special advantage from the rest of the group--to select the final 2100 students...
Seamus P. Malin '62, assistant dean of admissions, describes the applicant pool as a self-selected one. Most admissions officers say at least 80 per cent of all candidates are capable of surviving academically here. The number of acceptable candidates only diminishes as one begins to assess who would make a positive contribution--academic or otherwise--to the University. Jewett says 60 per cent of the pool is composed of students he would readily admit; David L. Evans, senior admissions officer, sets that figure at 40 per cent. Either way, the actual 17-per-cent acceptance rate represents...