Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...information dealing with the setting of faculty salaries, financial aid and tuition were subpoenaed in the probe, which is investigating reports of collusion by the colleges. The subpoenaed records, say educators and lawyers, include almost all university financial documents...
While 41.3 percent of the graduates surveyed cited "high income potential" as an important criteria in their career decision, almost 90 percent selected "intellectual challenge" and 71 percent "the opportunity to be helpful to others" as significant considerations...
Fewer people realize, however, that since then, the Verba report has failed almost completely. It has failed not because its recommendations were poor, but because the Faculty Council, the steering committee of the faculty, vetoed them without letting the full Faculty consider their merits. The only success achieved was in terms of good publicity for the Administration, which has been able to make it appear that the Faculty is responding to the Verba report, when in fact almost nothing has been done...
...1850s, pictures were formed on a sheet of glass that had to be coated with an emulsion just before the exposure, then developed at once. Action shots were ruled out by the lengthy exposure times, several seconds or more. And while history might be made at night, photographs almost never were. Flash powder did not come into use until the 1880s...
Within a year came widespread use of the famed Leica, which replaced fragile glass plates with spool-wound 35-mm film. Meanwhile, film was getting "faster," allowing pictures to be taken in almost any light. Thus equipped, the photographer had become, like the modern soldier, a self- contained, highly mobile warrior. His lines of communication were greatly extended in 1935 when the Associated Press inaugurated its first Wirephoto transmission service...