Word: abhorring
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...more subtle level, many students have come to abhor and cherish the "R" of Radcliffe in creating acronyms for their groups. The hard-to-pronounce double constant combo HR has provided struggle and relief in creating acronyms. There are some clear winners and losers...
...gives you some control over not acquiring objects that were taken illegally--all archaeologists abhor the practice of looting, and we do not want to encourage that kind of behavior," says Pearsall...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D's. Consider C-a failure.) Why? Not became they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...that Congress tried to deal with by passing the ham-handed Communications Decency Act in 1996. But last June the Supreme Court ruled that the CDA violated adults' First Amendment rights, leaving the whole issue of children and the Internet in something of a legal vacuum. Since policymakers abhor vacuums even more than Nature does, the capital found itself host last week of a conference graced with the title of "Internet/Online Summit: Focus on Children." Was there no budget for a clever acronym...
...abhor this decision and are writing in the hope that perhaps, this once, the demonstration of student support for Hickey will encourage the FAS to reconsider its decision. We agree with Hickey about Harvard's inhumanity. As he said, "You would think that this glorious [institution] would just care a little more." (See the front page of the Jan. 22 Crimson...