Word: encompass
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...credit. That is what each student here receives for taking a "class." The well-known secret around here is that the University's definition of "class" can encompass just about anything. Consider the Freshman Seminar you took last year with no final, little reading, and only one paper graded Pass/Fail. On the other hand, consider the nail-pulling, sadistic excesses of Organic Chemistry which generate horror stories rivaling only the required reading lists given to Social Studies concentrators...
...virtue of its name, AAA has a responsibility to try to encompass almost 20 percent of the student body, says Paul K. Kim '96, who ran unsuccessfully for AAA's presidency last year...
...ballot question would lower the personal income tax rate for couples with adjusted gross income less than $102, 000 per year from 5.95 per cent to 5.5 percent. This bracket would encompass 92 percent of Massachusetts residents. Those falling into other brackets would have additional income up to $150,000 taxed at 8.8 percent, and income over $150,000 taxed at 9.8 percent. Total state revenue would be unchanged...
...search could even encompass the student.harvard.edu machines that is, undergraduates' personal computers. Only "finger" databases (which most undergrads don't have) are perused, however, so students need not fear that netfind will pry further into their systems. To try netfind yourself, telnet to ds.inter.net and log in as "netfind...
...philosophy, history and politics are all expressions of the reality that power and mortal men alike are to serve life. So your education is meant to give you insights into this cardinal fact that every other institution you encounter must desperately hide because it cannot destroy. An individual can encompass the whole only in dream--or in the heartache of life, which is a version of dream, but a version of dream we are obligated to make as true as we are able...