Word: almost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firm, considered highly innovative, has executed multi-million dollar projects at Swarthmore College, Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. The study is "almost finished" and ready for administrative review, says the architect in charge of the project...
...government finds Harvard in violation of Title VI of U.S. code, which prohibits federally funded institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, creed or religion, the University could lose all federal aid, which includes almost $2 million in financial aid and much more in research grants...
...Tseng will be repeated over and over again if Harvard doesn't take steps to more stringently monitor its faculty's outside affairs," says Robert Weissman '89-'90, co-founder of the group Harvard Watch, which evaluates administration policies. "It's almost inevitable...
Both works live up to their Tolstoyan title. Under executive producer Zvi Dor-Ner, the series freshens the emblematic images of the nuclear age with rare footage and ironic juxtapositions, so that the viewer is more likely to look, and think, twice. Yet another mushroom cloud, at first almost a cliche, becomes surreal as Communist Chinese cavalrymen are shown charging toward ground zero as part of a training exercise, riders and horses wearing special masks to protect them against the blast...
...mathematics at Temple University, has written a book about mathematical illiteracy. Titled Innumeracy (Hill & Wang; $16.95), it seeks to explain why so many people are numerically inept and shows how they can learn to work and play with figures. Paulos, 43, has no patience with mathematical dumbos who almost boastfully claim, "I can't even balance my checkbook," or "I'm a people person, not a numbers person." "I'm pained," he says, "at the belief that mathematics is an esoteric discipline with little relation or connection to the 'real' world...