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...common room. In most student suites, more than 15 people is synonymous with sauna. Furthermore, there is a justifiable psychological need to spend one's leisure time outside one's place of study. Partying while surrounded by bookshelves full of Kant and Foucault can definitely put a damper on the mood...
...only damper on the festivities came when a group of first-years ran after thedefenseless nature lovers and began hurlingsnowballs...
...economists warned that some Clinton policies could act as a damper on new jobs. Jones noted that many operators of medium-size companies, which have traditionally been job creators, are "close to seething with anger" over proposals the Administration is pushing. Among them: levies on business to finance such programs as job training and health-care reform. Roach called such schemes "nothing more than a thinly veiled hiring...
Harvard, however, lost its next two games, and its hopes for a title fizzled with them. The Crimson did win its next three games, but a loss to Yale put a damper on an otherwise strong 4-3 Ivy, 7-3 overall season...
Access to certain parts of the Yard, like the East Yard, can be denied to students from the West Yard after a preset hour. Some first-years, unhappy with what they perceived as a damper on their social hours, successfully lobbied Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans, to extend visiting hours last fall...