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Word: amounting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apparently, the guys in our room last year had waited a while to pay. We called them to inform them of the dollar amount. With astounding calmness, they apologized and took the bill. No problem, they told...

Author: By Darshak M. Sanghavi, | Title: Frosh Phone Follies | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

Because senior faculty are asked to evaluate candidates for tenure around the country, to travel and speak at conferences and to sit on other universities' ad hoc committees, the amount of time they spend doing service work is considerably more than what junior faculty spend, Vendler asserts...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Should Service Be Considered in Tenure? | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

Exam period brings out the worst in us. Crimson editors have attempted over the years to express in words the feelings (desperation, hatred, nausea) that overcome Harvard students when we realize the amount of class work we have ignored during the semester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exam Period | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...some extent. We fully understand that a new Administration needs a certain amount of time to assess its foreign policy priorities. But I will be able to give a fuller answer after my talks with Secretary of State James Baker. We have to begin working together. There are quite a few problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shevardnadze: Allow Me to Disagree | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

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