Word: upper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Falle maintains his 2.91 goals-against average, second only to Blair's in the ECAC, and the offense can score some clutch goals, then expect Clarkson to battle atop the upper echelon of ECAC hockey...
Krayer names passing and skating as his fortes. What he needs to work on, though, is his shooting and upper-body strength...
...money will enable the non-profit preservation group to "identify the central areas along the mid-to upper-Charles River that are most threatened by development," said Paula V. Cortez, former president of the association...
...George III and Lord North? Given the uninflected worship of money that marks the 1980s, it is no wonder that the spectacle of privilege enjoying its own toilette has become America's hottest cultural ticket. Thus Lord Marchmain of Brideshead becomes the Blake Carrington of the American upper middle classes...
...with her anthropology studies. But both cases symbolize a chilling reality: at universities across the nation, blacks in particular and minorities in general are shockingly underrepresented at all levels, from the top of the faculty down to the lowliest freshman. The most dramatic drop-offs occur at the upper levels. Minorities constitute more than 20% of the nation's college-age population, but according to Sheila Biddle, program officer of the Ford Foundation, they accounted for only 8% of the 31,190 Ph.D.s awarded in 1983. Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans and American Indians together accounted for a bare...