Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard hesitated over whether to increase its aid, many said this decision didn't make sense economically--Harvard's high yield in the admissions process despite its lack of an aid increase seemed to demonstrate that students would bear any burden to get into the University...
Behind Kelly on the field stands the man with perhaps the heaviest burden of all. Sophomore goalkeeper Mike Meagher must fill the gaping hole left by Jordan Dupuis '99. Dupuis was stellar last season and set the school record for career saves...
Kauppila joins this unit as a career backup who finally gets his chance to start. His years on the team also burden him with some leadership responsibilities as he adjusts to the full-time job. At least he has been witness to the wars, and from all accounts is not afraid to assert his seniority...
...Ever since his best-selling first novel, Presumed Innocent (1987), Scott Turow has turned out taut legal and psychological thrillers at the rate of one every three years: The Burden of Proof (1990), Pleading Guilty (1993) and The Laws of Our Fathers (1996). If this is 1999, there must be another one on the way, and sure enough, here comes Personal Injuries (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 384 pages; $27). But another Turow, as his constant readers have discovered, does not mean the same story with different names attached for the sake of variety. Turow likes to alter the form as well...
...Hoffman is a field geologist who has studiedthe geology of the distant past when continentswere starting to form," Burden Professor ofMeteorology Brian F. Farrell said. "We havewonderful people [in the department] who do thebiology of this period and now Paul Hoffman addsanother dimension of what the earth was doing atthis time...