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The arrangement helps keep admit rates low—regular decision admittance was a record-low 2.8%—while effectively boosting yield.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Tensions in the Middle East have effectively choked off transportation through the Strait of Hormuz—a route that handles roughly one-third of the fertilizer trade.
From Barron's • May 1, 2026
That made it 92-85 and effectively doused the Lakers’ comeback.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
Energy prices have risen this week as peace talks appeared to have stalled, with the key Strait of Hormuz waterway remaining effectively closed.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
The old Antifederalist coalition that Madison had opposed so effectively at the Virginia ratifying convention in 1788 believed with some justification that their cause had never really been defeated, merely outmaneuvered.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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4.3: Origins and Impact of the Western European Empires in the North Atlantic (Sources 1–9)
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