Word: certain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with the rest of the endowment, the Corporation, the University's chief governing board, will decide each year to spend a certain percentage of the fund...
Hallowell said previous theories about stressand the workplace--in which "flogging the brain"was thought to increase productivity--have beenreassessed by scholars recently. On the"performance anxiety curve," after a certain pointon the graph, more stress correlates with lesscompleted work, not more...
...Governments grow like octopuses," said Long,67. "By our constitution, government cannot exceeda certain size...
...Harvard's coaches are certain thatminority staff means minority recruits. Murphy,for one, cites his own success in attractingminority players despite having the Ivy's onlyall-white staff...
...live with this constant threat? After the U.S. bombed Afghanistan and the Sudan, the precautions taken in America filled highlight reels here for days: cranes moving gigantic barriers around the Washington Monument, increased airport security and decreased access to certain offices and revered sites. Surely this barricading offers some protection, But something will be lost when third-graders go home and describe a Washington Monument not as a serene pinnacle to American glory but as a virtual maze of uniforms and restrictions, recalling that it was surrounded not by flags but by concrete...