Word: bottlenecks
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There’s a new gripe floating around campus, and this one is even less legitimate than the rest. At issue are the high turn-away rates of Harvard’s creative writing classes; such a tight bottleneck, say the complainers, is just another example of Harvard denying its undergraduates the opportunities that lured them here in the first place...
...have shuttle buses to the medical school, but they are slow and generally unpleasant,” Jacobsen says. “And with only a few tiny bridges connecting Cambridge to Allston that already have bottleneck traffic, we are looking for better solutions [than] shuttle buses for Allston.” For the Moment
...move will increase the number of hygienists from nine to eighteen and UHS officials say they hope it will ease the unexpected bottleneck that emerged when nearly twice as many students as usual signed up for UHS’ dental insurance program...
...lecture: I run into student volunteers collecting for the Red Cross in front of the Science Center. One holds out a plastic jug, swollen already, and I press a couple of green bills through the bottleneck. I nod quietly to myself, impressed with the campus’ philanthropic spirit...
...changed: foreign broadcasters are eager to get into the China market, Beijing is willing to have them (if it can control content) and the market is one of the world's biggest plums. Whether China will actually allow direct-to-viewer foreign television transmissions is another matter. The technological bottleneck?and potential filter?created by a centralized uplink facility could soothe the anxieties of China's political mandarins. Such a policy change would surely be good for business. Goldman Sachs expects TV advertising revenues in China to grow from $2 billion today to $7 billion in 2010. And someday, additional...