Word: agreement
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...world. Radcliffe is a wonderful institution with a history we can be proud of. However, Radcliffe is no longer an institution which has as its primary function the instruction or housing of female students-- that role belongs to Harvard College. On Radcliffe's Web page, it is stated: "By agreement between the institutions, women undergraduates who are admitted and enrolled in Radcliffe are thereby enrolled in Harvard College with all the attendant rights and privileges accorded by Harvard College enrollment." It would seem that one of these "attendant rights and privileges" is the awarding of a diploma bearing the seal...
...flattering his examiners' egos. The cause of the death of King Ladislaus, an obscure fifteenth-century Czech monarch, is an unsolved mystery with political implications: a patriotic Czech is expected to agree with his nation's medical historians about the cause of Ladislaus' death (though no one is in agreement), rather than with the account of rival German historians. When Holub is quizzed on medical minutiae by his professors, he offhandedly conjectures that Ladislaus died from whatever ailment his examiner happens to be studying. The gambit works, winning him high marks in every discipline but one--gynecology...
...agreement was reached to guarantee the Tasty space in the building, but no commitment was made as to where the Tasty's space will...
...agreement will do almost nothing to slow down greenhouse gases," says Lemonick. "We are doomed to global warming ? what we're arguing about is how much, and when...
Global Warming Goes Down to the Wire There's only a day left in Kyoto to come to agreement on keeping carbon dioxide emissions down. The Chairman's optimistic, but developing nations aren't coming on board...