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Many find the school's students a more challenging group than elsewhere. "Everyone that has taught in the program has been surprised at the high quality of the students," says Goethals. There is a small element of significantly slower students that he doesn't find in the college, says Moore. But many of these disappear, along with those who give up when winter weather rolls around or decide the traveling is too much. There is a 20 per cent attrition rate over the course of a semester...
...June period, the economy's rate of expansion narrowed to a less boomy but still acceptable 4.5%, but inflation rose to an annual rate of 6%, up from about 3% in the first quarter. Since then, moreover, almost all the major indicators have been pointing to an even slower rate of growth in the third quarter. Though official Government estimates on expansion for the period will not be out until this week, most economists have already scaled down their earlier growth forecasts from 4% to 3%, or less. All at once fear settled like a fall frost on Wall...
...slowdown in the recovery has not been all that sharp. The economy's rate of expansion-which determines how rapidly jobs, sales and profits are created-swung from a robust 9.2% in the first three months of the year to a slower but still healthy 4.5% in the second quarter. Lately, though, a spate of figures coming out of Washington has suggested a further decline. The leading indicators dropped in August for the first time in a year and a half. Nonresidential-construction contracts hit their lowest level of the year...
Dartmouth showed a similar lack of mud-running ability last week against a slower but stronger Yale squad, and Jake Crouthamel is no doubt echoing Restic's call to the heavens for a clear and dry autumn afternoon which will allow both teams to display their offensive firepower...
...Their team is much like ours," Restic said. "They're quick and fairly small, and they rely on sharp play coordination to overcome a lack of size. The kind of weather we had does nothing to improve the chances of a team like that against a slower opponent...