Word: easier
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Marbury's shuttling was made easier by the advent of the modern jet airliner. But his travel difficulties are the source of a dilemma which has dogged the Corporation on the rare occasions that it has to choose a new member--how to draw members who are geographically representative of the entire Harvard community...
...learning to love and hate the South, struggling to reconcile the value of a mytholgized past with fears for the way it will shape the South's future. The further burden is that other Harvard students rarely understand this struggle. And the greatest shame is that it is far easier to turn one's back on the struggle and never return home...
...Reagan readily acknowledged the difficulty of such a task at Friday's memorial service. Recounting the sorrow of an Iowa couple who lost all five of their sons in a World War II battle, he said, "In some ways, it was easier to bear then because it was easier to understand why we were there, why we were fighting." Then he added sadly, "The burden of our time is so different...
Some athletes are alternating their running and walking shoes. Marathoner Clare Hurtel, 25, of San Francisco walks as part of her training regime. "At first I didn't take walking seriously, probably because it didn't hurt," she says. "Now I think it's definitely easier on your structure." So does Etta Hicks, 68, who works with mentally handicapped people in De Kalb County, Ga. She did not take to running, but walking, she says, "has become a way of life." Everyone finds the sport congenial, though not as much as Marilyn Nye, 43, and Paul Perry...
While questionable business practices are nothing new, the vulnerability of today's economy to rampant white-collar crime is setting off alarms. Particularly in the service industry, stealing has become easier than ever to pull off and to rationalize. White-collar workers are harried by competition, given new power by computers, tempted by electronic flows of cash, and possessed of a strong appetite for status symbols. Result: what began as the decade of the entrepreneur is fast becoming the age of the pinstriped outlaw, his prodigal twin. The white-collar crime wave is already spurring an antibusiness backlash, which could...