Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spring 1995 decision--known simply as"randomization"--placed all first-year blockinggroups in randomly-assigned Houses. Previously,the College had taken smaller steps to limitstudent preference, with the larger goal ofdiversifying the makeup of each House community...
...coffers of the International Monetary Fund, which were depleted by its $120 billion bailout of Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin went to Congress to request an $18 billion boost for the IMF. Getting it will not be easy, since last year Congress rejected a much smaller request...
...companies also get the critical mass needed to compete with the aviation blocs created by American and United. The two majors each stitched together a quilt of global partnerships that could potentially outmaneuver smaller carriers like Continental and Northwest, if left to their own devices. Just last week a long-awaited air-service agreement between the U.S. and Japan was reached, opening up significant competition to Northwest's profitable Asian routes. American and United are expected to ink partnerships with major Japanese carriers...
Danish citizen Carsten Svendada, a Kennedy School student, said it was "striking to see that even though the welfare state is smaller [in the United States] than in Europe...the problems are so great...
...says that Starbucks--as a large franchise--can afford to pay for services and supplies that smaller stores cannot, and consequently, unfairly competes with the smaller businesses...