Word: considerable
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The Secretary of Education, William Bennett, voiced these concerns with customary verve when he spoke at Sanders Theater in October 1986. "Where are our colleges and universities," he asked, "on the issue of their responsibility to foster moral discernment in their students? With the exception of a relatively few places...
However, the goals of promoting diversity and creating a house community recently have been at odds in the divisiveness surrounding Kirkland house. Master Donald H. Pfister's concerns that the concentration of athletes in certain houses--especially his own--are so high as to defeat the College's goal of...
But instead of looking past the Dartmouth crew, the Harvard flew past it on the way to a speedy seven-second victory. The margin of victory was especially impressive when you consider that the Big Green crew was rowing at a faster pace than the Black and White.
...some other type of domestic spending, a prospect no legislator relishes. Though a Senate subcommittee will consider legislation this spring, Rouse concedes that "realistically, until there is a new President, there is not going to be a new housing program." But there is growing pressure not to put off consideration of such a program forever. The housing report is the third in recent months making essentially the same point: agonizing as the situation of the homeless is, it is only the tip of a very dangerous iceberg...
Young Communists vacuum-clean the streets, and workers paint green leaves on trees. Monuments are scrubbed with Yugoslav shampoo, and telephone lines cut by the Germans in World War II are at last repaired. Since Gorbachev was once party secretary responsible for agriculture, a committee of scientific experts is convened...