Word: pools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Admissions officers maintain that despite thelarge pool, they can identify students that shouldbe accepted...
...concerned about the increasing numberof early action admissions at Harvard, given thatthe pool of candidates was very large and strong,"Lewis wrote...
Citibank's private-banking unit holds more than $100 billion, which makes it about the same size as the entire bank was in 1982. Those funds are in turn part of a $17 trillion global pool of money belonging to what bankers euphemistically call "high-net-worth individuals"--a pool that generates more than $150 billion a year in banking revenue. The numbers are especially impressive when you consider that except at a few sleepy British and Swiss institutions, the private-banking industry didn't exist until the 1980s. Citibank predicted early this year that it would reach $1 trillion...
Here's a remarkable structure: a kiddie pool, perfectly round, dug by a Hyla boans tree frog as a nest and nursery for its tadpoles. The pool's sand walls look as if they have been carved and smoothed by a sculptor; they hold the tadpoles until they are transformed into froglets...
...Lankard's view, not only the trees and streams were endangered; so were the native cultures that depended on them. But he was taunted on the street and cursed at sea. An Indian logger pushed him against a wall in a Cordova bar and threatened him with a pool cue. He was voted off the Eyak Corp. board and sued twice...