Word: pools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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School officials decided the remaining places on "flexible racial/ethnic guidelines" determined by the percentage of each of the five ethnic and racial categories in the applicant pool...
...Sanders sleeps. Hundreds of benches lie empty, and a lonely pool of spring sunshine travels across the hardwood floor of the grand old theater. A couple of hours later, a door swings open, and the dusty air stirs as somebody walks in 10 minutes early for lecture. One minute elapses, and a pack of talkative TFs file in. They speak softly. In whiffs and poofs, students arrive, still quiet. Seven minutes go by-more people still. The spotlights turn on; the P.A. system warms up, and the room buzzes with ambient sound. At 10 minutes, hundreds of rustling papers...
Especially in large concentrations, where a pool of graduate students work as advisors, students should be able to pick their own advisor. In many cases, a student will feel more comfortable with someone other than their own advisor to discuss curricular or personal concerns...
...Crimson also found some much-needed points out of the pool, as its divers out-flipped the competitors. In fact, the only win against Princeton besides the 100 butterfly come with senior co-captain Courtney Swain's eye-opening three-meter diving effort...
...recommend setting aside a small portion (no more than 10%) of your portfolio to play hunches. Call it your fun money. If you want to take a flyer on a stock in an industry to which you're already heavily exposed, take the cash from your hunch pool. Meanwhile, make sure that your other 401(k) and any additional retirement accounts are invested in diversified stock funds or, if you're a stock picker, spread among other industries. There's nothing wrong with having confidence in your employer. But even Bill Gates sells Microsoft shares regularly to diversify...