Word: behind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fourth floor with me were the opera-nut (who also accompanied her music with an out-of-tune recorder) and her clean-cut roommate, along with a hodgepodge of very smart people who stayed behind closed doors studying most of the year. The women also had to cope with Chuck's completely inept attempts at seduction ("Can I borrow your typewriter?"). It was lonely up there, and I hated everyone...
Science students live on another planet. Their courses are incredibly rigorous; if you don't keep up with the work every week, you'll fall behind your classmates. And since the courses are graded with fancy scientific Gaussian bell curves--which rate your work not only on how good it is, but on how well others are doing--those classmates may be glad to see you falter...
...institutional leaders everywhere know, and as students slowly learned in the wake of the furor over investment ethics, these thousands of dull financial decisions--each insignificant in itself--add up to a carefully plotted course for the University's future. Conservatism, stability and more stability are ever behind the choices the Corporation makes. Although Harvard's phenomenal $1.4 billion endowment--nearly twice as large as Yale's the nearest competitor--looks like a sturdy nest egg to envious officials of other universities, Corporation members see only inflation and recession eating away at it. A gargantuan $250 million fund drive will...
...Behind the Corporation is the even more shadowy Board of Overseers--shadowy almost to the point of insubstantiality, as far as most students are concerned. The Overseers are organized into visiting committees, one for each Harvard department or institution. What do these committees do? Well, they visit. They talk to students and faculty, bring in experts, and issue a report after it's all over. The Overseers do little else, except provide Harvard fund-raisers with a ready-made group to tap. Their president, Andrew Heiskell, is also chairman of Time, Incorporated...
...race is on. You get your second wind by the third flight--the others are falling behind. You burst through the appointed door, an easy first. Relax, you tell yourself, you roommates probably won't even show til tomorrow. Smooth sailing...