Word: almost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...event, it did not take me very much time to recognize that Harvard students were quite fond of extracurricular activities and almost equally as fond of corresponding titles that go with them. Thus, as Ec 10 would have taught me if I had ever decided to take it, this great demand must result in a very high cost. The marketplace would accomodate this demand by raising prices, for example, but Harvard has a far more exacting scheme: to wit, the comp...
...movie completely alters the nature of risk. The old moguls could take a roll on a picture and know that if it didn't work, it wasn't going to bring the studio down. There was a regular cinema audience. Today, as I learned to my cost at Columbia, almost every time you come up to bat, you're making a $20 million, $30 million or $50 million bet. That's not an environment that encourages risk or adventurous, creative decisions...
...focusing almost exclusively on the military's discriminatory policies the staff position allows the Undergraduate Council to set the terms of this debate. The concerns of gays, lesbians and bisexuals are certainly justified, but they ignore the core issue--the fundamentally differing roles of Harvard and the military. Discrimination is simply one example of this disparity...
Harvard manufactured a run in the third and two in the fifth. The fifth inning almost mirrored the first as Konjoyan, left fielder Marcel Durand and first baseman Rich Renninger played key roles in the drive...
...nearly flawless songwriter. His 1979 debut album Look Sharp had few bad cuts, and since then Jackson has consistently experimented with standard pop forms and non-pop genres--among them big-band swing, cool jazz, salsa and orchestral music. Eleven albums later he presents us with pop music that almost guarantees an eclectic, hookladen album--which Jackson does deliver...