Word: crunches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficult as it is, I impose a ban on myself during the school year at Harvard: no pleasure reading. Many of my friends, even those in similarly reading-intensive concentrations like history and literature, do read for fun during the school year, but I know that if I crunch one bite of the forbidden fruit, I will be doomed forever--or at least until the end of exams. With more than 1,000 pages of reading per week, I simply don't have the three or four hours it takes to read a trashy novel, or the 10 or more...
...final crunch for students comes when it's time to pick up tickets for today's morning exercises. Each senior receives four tickets--probably enough to seat one's nuclear family. But what about everyone else? For a large number of students, graduation from Harvard is an unprecedented event within their families. When the grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins want to come, seniors can only buy more tickets from their classmates...
Although a public perception that PBHA was not radical enough to suit the times was a large reason for the drop in membership, a financial crunch that led to the elimination of five programs before the 1970-1971 school year also played a role in its decline...
...game play so startling that his target market would feel they just had to have it was to concentrate on speed--sticking to fast (but expensive) silicon cartridges as his storage medium and leapfrogging ahead to the next-generation 64-bit processors. (The number of bits a chip can crunch is a rough measure of its power. The old Atari games ran on 8-bit machines; Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo are 16-bit systems...
...doesn't get blindsided by the fairly independent, free-thinking GOP freshmen in the House." Or by Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, whose clever maneuvering in recent has sidetracked votes on several key issues, denying Dole the legislative victories he needs. With his campaign facing a severe budget crunch Dole's best option is still to make his case on the Senate floor. "If he were to take his campaign out from the Senate, where would he go? And how would...