Word: almost
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...professor with two young children enrolled in full-time Harvard-affiliated care can easily be paying almost $3,000 a month, Doherty says. The 1991 report noted that the cost of childcare consumes almost a third of a junior faculty member's salary...
...Shemmer lived in New York growing up, but was born in Tel Aviv--there's an Israeli flag in his bedroom and a military uniform in his closet. A psychology major at Penn, his only real business experience in college came almost by chance: one summer he found a job at an Israeli Internet start-up, as a secretary, but the strapped company promoted him on the second day. Shemmer's job at Broadview was equally unplanned. Unlike better-known investment banks, Broadview limits its business to the high-tech sector--Internet start-ups, Web-based companies, computer firms. Broadview...
...Hanging out around the table, the analysts look like a bunch of fraternity brothers in dress shirts. Of the dozen recent college graduates who work in the New York office, only two are women. With almost all males, the office has a rambunctious feel--Shemmer slaps his friends on the back and calls them "boys"; another recruit is a "stud." Several of the analysts' cubicles sport posters of scantily clad women, advertisements for a Web site called Bikini.com. "You get a bunch of 22, 23-year old alpha males, you're going to get a certain environment," an analyst tells...
...thought both Samuels and Cielebak did a great job on Clemente in the first," Magarity said. "He's such a smart player that he didn't force the issue, but maybe he should have, since he's almost impossible to stop on that step-back shot...
Although Vale eventually missed two free throws, the sequence allowed Marist to run the clock down to 1:30, almost a minute of critical late-game time. The Red Foxes scored 19 points off offensive rebounds on the night...