Word: easier
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Historically, the first-choice Houses have acquired reputations that seem attractive to certain groups of students. Athlees say they like to come home to other athletes, minorities say they like the support of other minorities in their Houses and student leaders say it's easier to organize activities when they have more interested people in their Houses. Yet to every argument there is a counter-argument, and in the case of the housing lottery, the counter-argument has been too long ignored...
Glauber started off by telling his unusually large class that studying light is relatively easy (because it's "cheap stuff") and that understanding light makes understanding matter easier...
Rosovsky agreed, saying that it will be easier to plan once the numbers level off. "Planning is particularly difficult at Harvard because we don't have pre-registration and we do have shopping. We pay a very high price for the present system," he added...
...final major adverse effect of sustained large budget deficits is to increase the risk of an inflationary monetary policy. We already hear occasional calls for an easier monetary policy that its advocates incorrectly claim will stimulate growth, increase tax revenue and reduce future deficits. But experience shows that an excessive monetary expansion would not only fail to achieve an increase in growth or a sustained reduction in real interest rates but would instead cause a rise in the rate of inflation...
CHALLENGING THE conventional wisdom of Harvard Liberalism has gotten easier in the past several years--but not by much, as our attitude towards the election this past year showed. I supported Walter Mondale for president, openly and vocally, as did most other students on campus, if polls conducted last fall are accurate. But much of this support, you got the sense, was predicated on the notion that there was no intellectual basis for backing Reagan. "You voted for Reagan?!" was a phrase said only half in jest most of the time, as if somehow the errant person were a mental...