Word: takings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seeking out high achievers in academics, athletics, music and other activities, Harvard annually yields a crop of first-years ready to take on everything, not hesitating to put their names on every list at the fall activity fair...
Also for Navy, senior point guard Reggie Skipworth averages just under five assists per game. Harvard will need to trap Skipworth, a skilled ballhandler, up front, as he will most likely be looking to feed the ball inside to take advantage of mismatches in the low-post...
...Harvard fails to take advantage of Navy in categories such as this one, where it can easily gain the upper hand, it very well may be in for a long evening...
...Slowly, and almost unconsciously, banal daily events take on a greater depth of meaning, because not only is Rosetta poor, she and her mother live in a near-animalistic state. Rosetta earns paltry sums of money by selling repatched clothes to a local second-hand shop, catches fish with a crude wire-and-bottle and can only ease the physical pain of abdominal cramps with a hair-dryer pressed against her belly. The alcoholic mother is reduced to exchanging oral sex for rent and electricity bills, and the two live in a dismal trailer park ironically named "Le Grand Canyon...
...beholder. We have a real and continuing puzzle as to where to draw the line on what individual countries can choose to do, and what they should agree to set according to a single international standard. These issues need further debate, but we should take care not to let narrow interests manipulate or undermine open trade...