Word: delayer
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Speaking strictly psychologically, this delay in grades has significantly increased the student body’s stress level. Harvard students are notoriously neurotic about grades, and many understandably spent a good part of last Friday compulsively, if futilely, refreshing the Registrar’s grade report page. And, as most any anxious Harvard student can tell you, the “daily” update promised by the website was last honored on January 17 at 14:00:03 EST—an inordinately long...
...help prevent future delays depends on Harvard professors and TFs. They must be more conscientious about turning grades in on time, by the set deadline—apparently, a good portion of grades had not yet been turned in by this term’s deadline. In general, however, the whole Registrar grade process needs to be more transparent. Three different administrators in the Office of the Registrar refused to comment about the reasons behind the delay, denying even a student’s basic right to an explanation. Moreover, the office could have saved a lot of student stress...
Many alumni who purchased the DVD were happy to receive the final product in spite of the delay...
...became special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction. His audit cites Bremer for lax accounting (on one payroll, for instance, only 602 of the 8,206 names could be confirmed, with no paper trail for the rest of the cash) and inadequate disclosure (the CPA allowed Iraqi officials to delay reporting the $2.5 billion the interim government received in oil-for-food money last spring...
...delay, the source said, came as several staffers and Summers himself struggled over the letter’s wording, waiting until Wednesday afternoon to settle on a final version. By then, Summers’ critics had grown louder and more numerous, and the story continued to receive widespread attention in the media...