Word: slews
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...PBHA, in addition to usual service-orientated programs, has taken on a slew of new activities this year that reflect a crucial shift in the organization. While PSLM's activities are reminiscent of 1960s era activists' techniques, PBHA too is consciously returning to its roots--the advocacy work that characterized the organization in its early days and throughout the 1960s and 1970s...
Freshman year, a whole slew of other colleges offered significant financial aid reforms. Harvard didn’t, at least not until more than a year had passed. Bleeding-heart Neil wanted to follow suit, but Jeremy who is prudent forbade it. Neil Rudenstine could do nothing. What’s a president supposed to do in that kind of situation? And so once again, Neil was torn between corporate necessities and his native impulses. He understood his position and that event, like so many others, must have acted like a wedge between the human being behind that gaunt physique...
...spring, Harvard had pretty much the same team on paper as one year ago. Freshman Lola Ajilore was the only new face to the varsity line-up. Nevertheless, as the season progressed, Coach Gordon Graham found himself shuffling his players in and out of his roster due to a slew of injuries to top players. Both senior co-captain Sanaz Ghazal and sophomore No. 1 Sanja Bajin spent a portion of the season on the sidelines nursing nagging injuries. Harvard showed a great deal of flexibility and resiliency to end the year on a high note, three matches above...
...Cuban Perez Prado got America dancing sideways to mambo and cha-cha rhythms with his own "Patricia" and "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (a French tune by Louiguy and Jacques Larue). A slew of instrumental hits traded in wanderlust: "Lisbon Antigua" (by Raul Portela, Jose Galhardo and Amaduedo Vale, recorded by Nelson Riddle), "The Poor People of Paris" (Marguerite Monnot's "La Goualante De Pauvre Jean," covered by Les Baxter), "Never on Sunday (Manos Hadjidakis), "Petite Fleur" (composed by expatriate jazz lion Sidney Bechet and Fernand Bonifay, and a 1959 hit for Chris Barber...
Most importantly, you will improve the lives of undergraduates immeasurably. Ownership of the Sox opens up a whole new slew of Core class possibilities. There could be new concentrations in sports-related fields...