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This effort to attract the Early Action candidates began three years ago as an attempt to get as many of these students as possible to accept Harvard's offer. In the last two years, over 90 percent of those students who attended the event wound up coming to Harvard in the fall...
...McLaughlin, it's the third winning season in his eight years here; for Harvard, it's the first time since 1971-72 and 1972-73 that it has put together back-to-back winning seasons. Last year's club wound...
...example, said Grassley and Kassebaum, the Reagan Administration had provided 76% more money for the purchase of aircraft and 48% more for production of warships than the Carter Administration had in its four years --yet wound up putting 12% fewer warplanes and 17% fewer major fighting ships into service than the previous Administration had. One reason: to get some weapons systems built, "we are paying up to $700 per standard hour for work normally done in the private sector for between $40 and $60." The Pentagon's response: the weapons it is buying are more advanced, technically sophisticated and effective...
...large brood, Hugh adopted a tone of remote and incomprehensible irony. His children came to believe that somehow they seemed to have "done him a concealed injury, to have stolen something from him, something they may have taken without knowing the wound they were inflicting...
...Atlantic City ("It's like you're in a hotel in Star Trek"), and its characters operate low to the ground and leave slimy trails. One of them is after Mora, 41, a Miami policeman convalescing in Puerto Rico from a mugger's bullet that chipped his hipbone. The wound initially looked worse than it was, because the second shot shattered a half-gallon of Gallo Hearty Burgundy that Mora was carrying, along with a jar of Ragu spaghetti sauce and a bottle of prune juice. The items suggest that the lieutenant is no oenophile, dislikes cooking and suffers from...