In the past, international students tended to have a better chance of getting into UCLA than out-of-state students. In 2012, international students had a 32 percent admission rate, compared to 28.8 percent admission rate for out-of-state students and 17.7 percent for in-state students.
The climes (singular clime; also clima, plural climata, from Greek ÎºÎ»Î¯Î¼Î± klima, plural ÎºÎ»Î¯Î¼Î±ÏÎ± klimata, meaning inclination or slope) in classical Greco-Roman geography and astronomy were the divisions of the inhabited portion of the spherical Earth by geographic latitude.
An impediment is anything that slows or blocks progress. It can refer to a physical thing, like a fallen tree in the road, or something more intangible, like how piracy is an impediment to the pleasure cruise industry in Somalia. See the pedi in there?