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...application spike will certainly contribute to the selection of a more qualified and heterogeneous class, according to Michael P. Burke, the senior associate director of admissions...
...agencies by and large consider chatter the most reliable intelligence there is. But they also need to constantly remind themselves that it is a blunt tool, often as confusing as it is illuminating. The day of the meltdown of the Chernobyl reactor in 1986, there was initially a sharp spike in Soviet message traffic. The intelligence community knew something bad had just happened. But what? The immediate speculation was a change of Soviet leadership or even a plane crash. It wasn't until more reporting emerged, including that by the media, that it was understood it was a nuclear accident...
Besides the economic downturn, Hernandez credited the spike in applicants to the school’s increased efforts to promote HDS and its programs to prospective students...
...States that ban gay marriage boasted a 11% spike in avid porn-viewers above those that don't outlaw such unions...
...decision to cut the spring round coincides with a spike in federal funding allocated for scientific research in the $787 billion stimulus package signed into law two weeks...