Word: popular
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...second is to be popular. The Undergraduate Council has always been the most popular student group on campus. Ad-Board reform, the month of January off, 24-hour Lamont, chocolate milk in the dining halls, the 2 a.m. party deadline, $450,000 in student-group funding, the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies, and organizing a big tailgate. These are all popular things that have made us popular. As a result our members have no problem getting accepted into our nation’s finest graduate programs and fellowships, and, more importantly, we tend to live longer...
After finance and consulting, education clocked in as the third most-popular field, drawing 13.7 percent of graduates planning to enter the workforce, likely reflecting the recruiting success of programs such as Teach for America, which reported last month that 17 percent of this year’s class had applied to its two-year teaching program...
...fact that they were closed for so long shows that they were obviously really devoted to not doing anything unless it was absolutely safe," Stuntz said. "It’s a really popular place so that obviously means we assumed they were working really hard to get it fixed...
...week things really got electric. Police used Tasers on fans twice, once to stop a field runner at a Phillies game and again to subdue a drunken fan at a golf tournament who was angry with Tiger Woods. Although the baseball event in particular may have yielded some very popular YouTube videos, the police officers involved should not have used such excessive force. In both cases, the response was far harsher than the activity warranted, and Tasers are not an appropriate way to deter fans from illegal behavior...
Although the bookstore was founded by a German family, French books have since become Schoenhof’s predominant source of revenue. “The latest, hottest French novel” is always the most popular item in store, Eastman says, especially if it has recently been translated into English...