Word: conveyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said to be considering joining in. But all this "progress" is on a trial basis, and leaves eight Houses with no improvement at all in the near future. So here, in the vain hope that a House master or two might be reading, is one final effort to convey the blunt truth: the fact that a Harvard ID card does not allow a Harvard undergraduate access to other Harvard undergraduate Houses is probably the least rational, most infuriating policy at the College...
...Nations Development Program. That document features a Human Development Index that ranks countries by a combination of three factors: average income, educational attainment and life expectancy. Thus, Costa Rica ranks 62nd from the top in average income but much better, at 39th, in the Human Development Index. These rankings convey Sen's powerful message: annual income growth is not enough to achieve development. Societies must pay attention to social goals as well, always leaning toward their most vulnerable citizens, and overcoming deep-rooted biases to invest in the health and well-being of girls as well as boys...
...take on a ring of inauthenticity. Lambert demonstrates an intelligent, distinctive and at moments strikingly creative style, incorporating references as diverse as analysis of the Latin root of the verb "to educate" to quoting Kierkegaard. However, his voice as a writer comes into conflict with his desire to clearly convey the rowing experience. It is difficult to believe that a rower on the Charles before sunrise is thinking about the benefits to learning from mistakes orthe merits of teamwork...
...Russia, only the radical Communists and Nationalists present a genuine threat of such a reverse. These groups depend for their legitimacy, like any alarmist political party, on the perception that Russia is threatened by international forces drawing together against her. Nothing more clearly could convey this impression than the invitation by NATO to these three countries to join an alliance designed specifically to oppose Russia...
...ever portrayed as an inherently bad individual, or a non-person, whatever their past, whatever their habits. Verghese is completely non-judgmental. He manages to avoid moralizing or preaching. Nor does he glorify anything. Rather, he tells it like it is, and that is more than enough to convey many of the problems and the agonies caused by addictions...