Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall of 1985, my brother left our home in Winter Park, Fla., for Yale. We were all very proud, but the experience that was about to begin would only worsen my brother's esteem. In his two years at Yale, he encountered a harshness that took him in and spit him out in so many ways. My brother never graduated, and for the next 10 years he wandered from job to job and city to city without finding the security he was so desperately looking...
Harvard Business School (HBS) slipped to fifth place while the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania took top honors in Business Week's latest ranking of America's best business schools...
...took care of it myself, though I was seriously sick for a week," Leonard said...
...happens: People drop out of Harvard. Last year 350 students, including those studying abroad, took voluntary leaves of absence. The Ad Board compelled an additional 20 students to withdraw for varying lengths of time; twelve for "inappropriate social behavior," the three for alcohol or drug-related "inappropriate social behavior," and five for "academic dishonesty." Only one of these students is for-bidden to return; most of the others will gladly come back when permitted. However, most people who drop out or take extended leaves of absence do so voluntarily. Then, of course, there are the cases of Matthew P. Damon...
...Favalora took a leave of absence from the Harvard Business School a Year and a half ago in order to found Actuality Systems...