Word: among
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Galbraith's two previous novels were The Triumph, the story of a Central American dictator, and The McLandress Dimension, a tale of an inventor who, among other projects, creates a method of classifying people by the amount of time they spend not thinking about themselves...
...even if several houses do have an imbalance of one group over another, some of the masters' opposition to the Jewett plan seems to stem from the fear that increasing the similarities among houses will decrease their overall importance to the life of the College...
ACCORDING to the October 16 issue of U.S. News & World Report, Harvard-Radcliffe ranks third among national universities. This came as quite a shock to an acquaintance, a "Harvard man" if ever there was one. He's not used to being second-best in anything; third is simply anathema...
Like most of Ec 10, I found the joke somewhat funny. Among tenured economists, it might be downright hilarious. But the joke is entirely inappropriate for an introductory course in a department that is trying to attract more female concentrators...
Conversely, other masters says that living among so many caring people extends the traditional family...