Word: weaker
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NOTEBOOK: Harvard continues road playthis weekend, travelling to Maine to take onBowdoin Friday and Colby Saturday. Both squads areamong the weaker teams in the ECAC
...industry particularly hard. For Continental, the doubling of fuel prices increased monthly expenses by $80 million. To pass along some of their higher costs, several carriers boosted airfares last week for the third time since August. Still, the higher fuel prices seem certain to intensify airline industry consolidation as weaker companies falter. Continental, which filed for bankruptcy in 1982, narrowly avoided a second reorganization last week when its management decided instead to consider selling planes and other assets. Pan Am meanwhile agreed to sell some of its few remaining crown jewels -- principally its London routes and gates -- to United...
...evident from some of these readers' comments that being the son or daughter of an alumnus of Harvard-Radcliffe was the critical or decisive factor in admitting the applicant. It is clear that the `lineage tip' can work to the advantage of an applicant by offsetting weaker credentials in virtually any of the rating categories. There is also some evidence to suggest that certain alumni parents' status may be weighed more heavily than others. For instance, the distinction made between alumni and "S&S" alumni suggests that legacies whose parent(s) participates on the Schools and Scholarship Committee are likely...
...felt that we should have won the regatta," Bowers said. "We sailed against all of the top teams and only lost once. The rest of the teams beat the weaker squads and did not deserve...
...economically weaker countries of southern Europe -- Greece, Spain, Portugal -- also have reservations. Their principal fear is that once a single currency is created, they would lose the power to devalue their money, a useful tool for boosting exports and dealing with trade deficits...