Word: almost
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...believe it is important to allay some of these fears and correct some of these misapprehensions about research and teaching in the natural sciences. Almost invariably, research contracts and grants at this university originate with a professor or group of scholars who believe their project will lead to new and fundamental knowledge. Ordinarily their proposal is reviewed by scientists at other universities who are asked to judge it only on the basis of its scholarly merit. If the university has projects serving other ends, initiated directly or indirectly by its administration or the government, we have yet to learn about...
...remember my freshman year when I almost transferred after hearing that Harvard was going to drop football (it turned out to be a false Dart-mouth press release). Now I'm glad I stayed. I've found out that there are a lot of other things besides sports-my interests have broadened," Wynne said...
...maximum which prudence allows is being spent from endowment income. Taking a larger share of the load not borne by fees would be, on the long run, suicidal. Is this true? From the end of the Second World War to 1967, the market value of the general investment almost sextupled, which means an average increase of about 8.4 per cent a year compounded. This annual rate of increase is made up mainly of value appreciation but it also includes gifts for capital and undistributed "income." Put in more general terms, the investments have increased about two and one-third times...
...Ohio last fall, a two million dollar base bought Republican Senatorial candidate William Saxbe the campaign services of Market Opinion Research, MOR and Sexbe "saturated" the state, with the help of a party machine almost twenty years in power, and narrowly beat a liberal dove candidate named John Gilligan...
Realizing that the Friends have been supplying substantial funds during the last few successful crew seasons, the lightweights contributed almost half of the required sum themselves. They supplied $3200 of the anticipated $7800 bill, and the Friends of Harvard Rowing gave the rest...