Word: priore
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Unless a better replacement can be found, colleges need the SAT to differentiate between applicants, especially in the age of grade inflation. The College Board reported that last spring 37 percent of the 1.1 million students who took the test prior to graduating in June had averages of A- or above in high school. Without the SAT, universities cannot judge these 400,000 applicants by one standard measure. Giving added weight to extra-curricular activities is certainly not the answer, especially in a time of trumped-up resumes and frivolous clubs and honor societies...
Heavy rain battered the field prior to the game, and a miserable drizzle continued throughout the contest, causing some problems for even the most experienced of players...
...Prior to Rudenstine's speech on Saturday, Harvard officials conducted panels on various aspects of running Harvard. Jack R. Meyer, president of Harvard Management Company, presented "Managing Harvard's Endowment" and Anne H. Taylor, vice president and general counsel, spoke on "Legal Problems Facing Harvard...
Does a single-sex show of solidarity have to be highly controversial in order to be extensively covered by the media? The Promise Keepers gathered in Washington last month and the press could not get enough of the potentially dangerous fundamentalist Christians; prior to the Million Man March, Farrakan had often been associated with a threatening militarism...
...very near future the world is divided into the genetic haves and have-nots. The former are designed in labs prior to conception; with a twist on this DNA strand, a tug on that one, they come out smart, handsome and spared even such minor inconveniences as lefthandedness. The have-nots, products of their parents' taking a romantic free fall into the gene pool, are condemned to hard labor in support of their superiors. They are also burdened with flightier emotions...