Word: abound
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...Rumors abound that Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser, one of two instructors who teaches the course, is under pressure to deflate grades because of his role on committees that are pushing for grading reform. “I heard from students that he was planning on restructuring the course and making it much more difficult, at least in terms of grade distributions,” kvetches Abigail M. Wild...
...This poor man's Thailand boasts four dazzling but desolate white-sand beaches, each sparsely dotted with shanties where locals sell water, fruit and French fries. Victory Beach is a two-minute walk from a backpacker-hotel cluster known as Weather Station Hill, where $2 rooms abound. The adventurous can hike 3 km south to Independence Beach. Sokha and Ochheuteal beaches on the south shore offer bungalows for rent and are somewhat more commercial, but not by much...
From there, the University should proceed by removing some of the bureaucratic hurdles that face both students and faculty. Examples of how the bureaucracy of decentralization stymies cross-disciplinary studies abound: the cross-registration process is inefficient, there is no centralized calendar of events for all schools, the schools are on different academic schedules and combined degree programs are often an administrative headache for students. The University should align the academic calendars of all of its graduate schools —or at minimum, put all classes on the same time schedule. It should reduce barriers to cross-registration, allow...
Every team is in first place on opening day, goes an old baseball maxim. Hope and possibility abound. Unless you are a member of the impossibly hopeless Montreal Expos. Then opening day is just the first chord of a season-long funeral march. "I like to use the analogy of someone who has been told he has a terminal illness," says Expos president Tony Tavares, who prays fans will buy tickets, if only to pay their last respects...
...extension to the National Gallery in London, the Prince of Wales said that it would resemble “a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend.” No one could possibly think that he was speaking of Harvard—carbuncles abound and the face of the campus has already been permanently disfigured. The University, meanwhile, acknowledges as much by having certain building airbrushed out of publicity photos...