Word: pools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eroded the supremacy of baseball in the national consciousness. Football, and sometimes basketball, finishes ahead of baseball in polls of sports popularity. Since the '50s--the era Ken Burns and Bob Costas would have us call the "Golden Age" of baseball--other sports have made inroads into the pool of athletes where baseball used to have first dibs...
...candidate pool for the council was more diverse last year, but Stewart says Rawlins also alienated people "who then felt compelled to run to lead the struggle against what they saw as identity politics," Stewart says...
Groups members emphasize that the fraternity's social life does not revolve around house parties and alcohol, pointing to trips into Boston to see the Red Sox or shoot pool, road trips, an annual formal and mixers with local sororities as examples of their varied social itinerary...
This fall the airlines are adding a new layer of complexity. As part of three major alliances--Northwest with Continental (still pending), Delta with United and American with US Airways--members will be able to earn miles on either carrier and, to a certain extent, pool them. But while that might grant flyers more options, it could also limit competition and further increase already sky-high demand for free seats. Frequent-flyer programs are shrouded in secrecy, but according to Randy Petersen, editor of the trade magazine InsideFlyer, most airlines make only about 7% of seats on a major route...
Former Pforzheimer Superintendent John Martell, who was present for move-in, said that the Pool Room had been locked for the duration of the vacation and that what likely happened was that another student helped himself to a rug or rugs during move...