Word: prospers
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Should we give a spot to Susan? That's the question before a roomful of admissions officers at Mount Holyoke College. Susan, who has top grades and gushing recommendations, could surely prosper here. But what more, they wonder, would she bring to this cozy all-women's college in South Hadley, Mass.? Giulietta Aquino, Susan's advocate on the six-member committee, ticks off a few of her accomplishments. She is a decorated horseback rider aiming for the Olympics who commutes three hours a day between her home, school and horse barn but still finds time to tutor immigrant children...
...only industry seeming to prosper under it all has been the publishing business. The Senate Ethics Committee last week approved Hillary's $8 million book deal; Bill is meeting with publishers to discuss his; and HarperCollins announced a new paperback edition of the 15-year-old, out-of-print Metal Men: How Marc Rich Defrauded the Country, Evaded the Law and Became the World's Most Sought-After Corporate Criminal. The pardon spree is also the first Clinton scandal to offer local angles to city editors across the country...
...appears likely that only four candidates remain in consideration by the Search Committee: University of Michigan President Lee C. Bollinger, Harvey V. Fineberg '67, Princeton professor Amy Gutmann '71 and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers. These candidates are all exceedingly strong, and we are sure the University would prosper under any of them. But because the deliberations have been conducted outside of the public eye, and because students have been repeatedly excluded from meaningful participation, we feel it necessary to express to the committee our views on the candidates and the criteria on which they should be assessed...
...solution will bring about both fairness and some equity in baseball. Though as a fan of the New York Mets, I would like to remain one of the five-to-eight teams that can realistically compete, I recognize that the game can only prosper if a team is not precluded from contention before the season even begins...
...case, they believe that for almost half of their lives, Clinton has caused the sun to rise and the chickens to lay and the Velcro to stick and the markets to prosper. If you demur by even a twitch (the matter of impeachment, or a pharmaceuticals factory missiled in Khartoum to distract the media from the spectacle of the President receiving oral sex from a very young intern in the Oval Office), they wrinkle their noses and look away, perplexed by the difficulty of knowing what the meaning...