Word: afterthought
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...regardless of what questions the applications ask, what is important is the modicum of interest and initiative students used to have to demonstrate in applying to Harvard. Now, they no longer have to demonstrate that initiative. Under the new system, applying to Harvard may come as an afterthought to some--"What the heck, I've filled the thing out. Might as well just send it in and see what happens." Thus, a significant number of students who would otherwise never consider applying to Harvard now will. As a result, admissions officials hope, the pool of candidates applying to Harvard will...
...member of an alpine club. It's an index of 30 stocks, the Dow Jones industrials, many of which aren't very industrial, unless you think of American Express as a plastics company and McDonald's as a packaging company, with the hamburgers as an afterthought. But industrial or not, they are the nation's most important equities, because 20% of all money invested in stocks goes into these...
...amphetamines before the cosmos was one second old. Then there was cold dark matter, hypothetical subatomic particles that may account for 99% of the mass of the universe and may relegate ordinary atoms-and the stars, planets and people they make up-to the status of a cosmic afterthought. Another notion described distortions in the very fabric of space and time, going by the name cosmic strings and cosmic textures. And lately theorists have revived an old idea known as hot dark matter, and an even older one called the cosmological constant. The latter is a kind of cosmic antigravity...
...initiatives in a major speech later this month -- rather than early next year, a more traditional time for such presidential pronouncements. Why? New GOP House Speaker Gingrich "will be active in early January, and they're worried that by the time Clinton speaks, it'll be an afterthought," Carney says...
This week the whole business starts over again as 15 alternates are chosen. In a case where jurors may be sequestered -- and exhausted -- for as long as six months, alternates cannot be an afterthought. As last week's jury selection drew to a close, a tired Clark remarked that everyone had earned their pay. Leaving the courtroom, she bid adieu to Dimitrius, perhaps thinking the defense consultant's job was completed. Dimitrius smiled and said "Not so soon. I'll be back." Dimitrius has been hired for the duration of the trial...