Word: blip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fineberg calls the $1.3 billion dollar drop inthe endowment "a blip," and Huidekoper says evenan actual decline in endowment value would notpush the payout percent too high...
However, the Crimson jumped out to an early 7-4lead in the fourth game, and it seemed that theprevious game was merely a momentary blip on theradar screen. But Dartmouth was far from finished.As the substantial and largely bipartisan crowdcame to life for both sides, Dartmouth stormedback to take the fourth game in a dogfight...
...Russell isn't merely a momentary blip of athleticism at right end, Harvard will have to look long and hard at ways to assist Clare and hold back the floodgates of would be assassins behind Linden...
...think a comment by my Economics 10 TF exemplifies my new outlook on Harvard life. After explaining the wacky nature of the segmented Ec 10 grading curves, she said, "In the long run, this test is merely a blip on the radar of your life...
...have of human time--permits us to think big about history. We can pause to notice what Grove calls, somewhat inelegantly, "strategic inflection points," those moments when new circumstances alter the way the world works, as if the current of history goes through a transistor and our oscilloscopes blip. It can happen because of an invention (Gutenberg's printing press in the 15th century), or an idea (individual liberty in the 18th century), or a technology (electricity in the 19th century) or a process (the assembly line early in this century...