Word: waits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week, and 8 out of 10 say they pray. Sure, they may enjoy dipping into the sultry waters of Dawson's Creek on Wednesday nights, but their ideas about sex would cheer William Bennett: 76% of those ages 12 to 14 say it's "somewhat or very important" to wait until marriage before having sex. When the other 24% were asked to name an appropriate age for premarital sex, these pubescent puritans settled on 23. The average age mentioned by parents...
...wait a minute! A wire through the breast? A scar? A grape? We're talking about my breasts, which I happen to be quite fond of. And given their modest proportions, I hardly had any to spare. Fear and vanity battled for control. Even though 80% of biopsies are benign, I was terrified the doctors would find cancer. I panicked. I wanted another opinion. Lots of other opinions...
...number of wait list acceptances this year is in part a product of this year's record high yield rate. While Fitzsimmons said final figures have not been determined since some accepted students may defer admission, the yield is likely to be almost 80 percent...
Some other schools reported similarly low numbers of waiting list acceptances. Dartmouth College accepted 13 people from their wait-list, and in the last two years has accepted none. This year they were also to admit a smaller class of 1050 students, according to Dartmouth admissions officials, because of the large numbers that have accepted admissions in recent years...
...considering wait list applicants, Harvard also considers material sent to them by students in the second half of the year, such as second semester grades and other achievements...