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...accepted students is around 1490, a score in the 99th percentile. But as the SAT I gets a facelift—the newest version will be released in 2005—it’s time that the college admissions world reevaluate its use of the test and scrap it altogether...
MICHAEL O?LEARY, CEO of budget airline Ryanair, on suggestions that his plans to scrap underused routes to France would inconvenience passengers
...this section aloud, even sang the song lyrics themselves, caught up in their humor. When Dylan becomes a rock critic later in the novel, he notes the ignorance of his childhood self: “Of course, the 35-year-old rock critic knew what the 13-year-old scrap of prey on the sidewalk outside Intermediate School 293 never did: Wild Cherry were a bunch of white guys...
...talks had stalled three months ago, with Pyongyang demanding a non-aggression pact as part of a sequence of steps that would include freezing and then scrapping its nuclear weapons program, while the U.S. insisted that North Korea would have to scrap its programs before any concessions could be offered. The hard-line U.S. position was premised on the insistence that North Korea should win no rewards for its extortionist behavior, particularly in light of its failure to adhere to the previous agreement negotiated with the Clinton administration in 1994. Since the day it took office, the Bush administration...
...Everett paired with freshman Christina Dahman to earn a second-place finish under the difficult conditions in the first race. The duo captured an early lead off the start in the following race, but a shift in the light winds ruined the course layout, causing the race committee to scrap the remaining races...