Word: closely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decided Harvard gets the benefit of the doubt in close calls," says Epps, who will retire this July from his position as dean of students, a post he has held for the past 29 years. "You can be a conserver of institutions but also have progressive views...Harvard isn't perfect. It was flawed. But it gets the benefit of the doubt from...
...students share the sentiment that the law school is spending close to $1 million to hire McKinsey to get what it could have gotten for free," says Hamilton Chan '95, a third-year law student...
...Indonesia has been called into question. The company's status and the allocation of its royalty payments have become a campaign issue. The company has denied any illegal behavior and notes that as one of Indonesia largest taxpayers, "it would be unusual if [we] did not maintain a close business relationship with the government of Indonesia and its officials, including then President Suharto." Fair enough, but in April, Standard & Poor's lowered its rating on $3.3 billion worth of Freeport debt and preferred stock, citing the firm's ties to Suharto and the possibility it could face "retribution [and] reprisals...
...Pacers, however, who came within one game of beating Michael Jordan's Bulls in last year's play-offs, have been increasingly intense. "When you're so close to the [championship] ring and so close to understanding the faults that went wrong, it kind of makes you hungry, and it kind of makes you go over the edge," says Miller. "The window of opportunity is closing on this aging team, and everyone wants to give their one big final push...
...indifference. But news of 1999 AN10 spurred other astronomers to track the asteroid. They posited that the tug of terrestrial gravity during the 2027 flyby could change the asteroid's orbit enough to threaten Earth during a 2044 passage. Indeed, say astronomers, 1999 AN10's path will remain dangerously close to Earth's orbit for the next 600 years. Maybe the budget increase will be passed by then...