Word: certain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even sophomores find that requirements pile up so that students can easily find themselves switching to a concentration requiring two sophomore tutorials. Though some departments allow one semester of tutorial to be waived under certain conditions, many departments will not be so lenient. Consequently, some students must take two tutorials one semester junior year and suffer the increased workload and complications...
Harvard takes pride in requiring students to choose a certain course and stick to it. Clearly, few students could ever experience all the activities and courses that appeal to them in their short stay at Harvard. Much can be said in favor of this idea of forcing students to find priorities and make tough choices...
...supplying the partners of the nation's largest corporate law firms. (Only 6 percent of Harvard Law School students currently go into public-interest law.) Vorenberg also instituted the nation's most generous loan-forgiveness program two years ago, which pays the debts of students with incomes under certain minimal points...
...What causes the professor to lower his voice to a drone is the presence, at the next table, of a local Communist official. "They say he is honest," says the professor. "They say that he doesn't have a crooked bone in his body. Maybe so, but I am certain those bones are held together by crooked...
...then the Boston research could represent a turning point. The study suggests that the suspect chemical may be produced in one or more tissues outside the brain, circulate in the bloodstream and enter various other tissues. But damage seems to occur only when the beta amyloid is deposited in certain regions of the brain important to memory and intellect. If that is true, then a way might be found to block the delivery of the protein to the brain. That could slow down -- or even halt -- Alzheimer...