Word: streaks
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Since Harvard's percentage was significantly higher than Yale's or Princeton's, the school's winning streak was doomed. In one year, the percentage of such classes Harvard reported dropped by more than half, from 21 percent to 10 percent...
...permitted, 59% of Xers would opt out of Medicare and save on their own. Of any adult generation, they have the weakest attachment to political parties, and in 1992 Gen Xers cast a higher percentage of votes for Ross Perot than older adults did. "We have a libertarian streak," says Thau. "We grew up in a period with one instance of government malfeasance and ineptitude after another, from Watergate to Iran-contra to the explosion of the Challenger to Whitewater. We believe government can't be trusted to do anything right...
...like boats on a lake on a bright, breezy day. The knock on McCartney's solo work has always been that it is overly sweet; too much light, not enough illumination. Now that McCartney is 54, however, age has brought to his work a welcome melancholy; there's a streak of gray in his golden voice. The Song We Were Singing, a gentle number looking back at the psychedelic bull sessions of the 1960s, has a jaunty feel but also a wistful one; Heaven on a Sunday finds McCartney at his most angelic, his voice gliding peacefully over a sadly...
Harvard rebounded with a three-game winning streak against Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Northeastern. Feaster exploded for a total of 90 points during that stretch...
That left a big hole in the middle--a five game losing streak that started over Spring Break and lasted until mid-April. Those games included close finishes that Harvard wishes it could have had back (one-goal defeats to Penn and Vanderbilt) and blowout losses that were never really that close (to Princeton, Maryland and Brown...