Word: approach
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Administrators argue that while dismissal might be considered lifetime imprisonment (but apparently with the slim possibility of parole a.k.a. readmission), expulsion is the equivalent of the death penalty, and they indicate their reluctance to take such final action. We appreciate the somberness with which they approach removing students for good, but again we ask, if not rape, what does it take? Moreover, devastating as it may be to lose one's status as a student of Harvard College, it is not equivalent to being sent to the gas chamber. Life will go on, just not with Harvard's stamp...
Because a second exposure could be lethal, we do not use the second part of that approach--but without the second part the first part argues weakly...
...other approach is epidemiological and is much harder to come by, i.e., one seeks evidence that a drug regularly causes a certain effect. I feel reasonably sure that neither of those evidentiary elements are available in the cases at issue, just as they are unavailable in other cases we read about every day--the Agent Orange case, the high-tension electric wire case, the artificial sweetener case, etc. In all, we are left in limbo as we seek to reach firm conclusions-and in the end the final judges of what took place are lawyers, journalists and the putative victims...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 said the loss of junior Faculty members reduces the diversity of approach in undergraduate course offerings...
However, dominating victories over Boston College (1-11) and Columbia (10-4-1) left the wrestlers with much to build on as the final and most important weeks of the season approach...