Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business that has felt the crunch has been Harvard Student Agencies (HSA), which provides jobs for hundreds of students each year. Edward J. Larkin '90, manager of HSA's student resources branch, says his office is filling only 10 to 15 percent of all openings, despite an aggressive publicity campaign offering starting salaries as high as $8.25 an hour. However, Larkin says he does not anticipate any long-term trouble in finding students to do moving, cleaning and other chores...
After reading Spencer Hsu's article "Orchestra Crippled by Missing Funds" of September 20th, I felt I had to respond to some of the misunderstandings and untruths contained therein...
...nonsense journalism, the results were sometimes grating. After boxer Anthony Hembrick was disqualified for arriving late, reporter Wallace Matthews bulled into an inner room where Hembrick slouched disconsolate. Matthews thrust a microphone into the stricken youth's face while posing the perennial pointless question about how Hembrick felt. As soon as swimmer Matt Biondi was touched out for the gold by a hundredth of a second in the 100-meter butterfly, analyst John Naber nastily opined that Biondi "deserved the loss" because he had glided in rather than risk a final, choppy stroke that might have caused him to collide...
...When she missed making the Olympic team by 0.1 point, he brought her along as a roustabout. Docked 0.5 points for Faehn's harmless presence on the platform, the U.S. women lost the bronze medal to the G.D.R. by 0.3 points. In his understated way, Karolyi expressed how they felt: "Like we were stopped on the highway, robbed, kicked in the butt and sent home naked...
...didn't watch the presidential debate on Sunday night. I felt bad about it at first--as though I wasn't interested enough in the issues, as though I didn't care enough about national events...