Word: copious
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...With copious amounts of UC and House-funded alcohol and food available, you may be tempted to grab as much as you can, while you can. Ms. Mannersmith reminds the greedy to “always have one hand free” and to not attempt eating and drinking at the same time. Balancing two beers and a plate piled high with munchies is a bit precarious and could easily lead to another breach of tailgate etiquette—spilling drinks on another person’s car.In the book of hurling protocol, the bathroom ranks as the number...
Reliance on SAT scores to determine the minimal-requirement threshold is not a universally popular move. Copious evidence suggests that performance on standardized tests is correlated to socioeconomic status, and studies have shown that it’s not by any personal failure that people who are poorer score lower. A March 2003 Century Foundation study backed others’ findings that low-income students placed in wealthy high schools tend to outscore their low-income peers at poorer schools...
...everything they want out of our football players during the Ivy season. The presidents have no motivation to send 70 kids to Montana for a playoff game. That doesn’t draw alums to Harvard Stadium, where—overcome by nostalgia—they decide to give copious amounts of money to pad our cushy endowment. In the end, the ban on the I-AA playoffs seems to be more of a business decision than a decision based on concern for our players. That’s probably why the presidents—not the athletic directors?...
Massachusetts has much to gain by providing full-day kindergarten to students in under-performing districts and little to lose aside from copious tax cuts it cannot afford. Governor Romney deserves support in his initiative, but it is critical that he pursue parent involvement through the channels of motivation, not compulsion. Romney already recognizes that a good education necessitates extra attention at home and extra attention at school; he should eliminate from his plan the barriers to both...
...Spangler Center at the Business School, which opened in Jan. 2001, receives rave reviews stemming from its comfort, copious amount of light and central location on the Business School campus...