Word: frail
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...Usually the market is crowded, but today business is as limp as the rotting persimmons on display. I buy carrots at $1.64 per lb., three times the price of their frail cousins at the state store but six times better looking...
...decision-making processes. The real issue is the incompatibility of Harvard Real Estate's aims in this case with those of the University as a humanistic enterprise. The University's scholars need spaces in which to think; Harvard Real Estate builds rooms for vacationing tourists. The frail symbiotic links between Cambridge and Harvard need to be nurtured through economic and environmental sensitivity; HRE adds another hated commercial development to a polluted and snobbified Harvard Square. Faculty and students--the heart of the University's existence--have begged their institution not to make their lives and careers harder. Jacqueline O'Neill...
...heroic Negroes. For Parker, that Mississippi summer represented "the beginning of political consciousness, not just in the South or in America, but in the whole world." Can Mississippi Burning help raise that consciousness once again, even as it has already raised old hackles? Perhaps not. But even that frail hope makes Parker's determination to go hunting and fishing in Neshoba County worth the trip...
...dozen Latin American debtor nations scheduled to hold presidential elections in the next two years, some populist candidates lure voters with promises of radical solutions to break the debt squeeze. Unless the region's scarce capital can be shifted away from foreign- debt payment back into economic growth, the frail bloom of democracy could wither...
...which earned little more than a broken-down economy and an ugly international reputation, South Yemen seems ready to try another direction. How far it will go, and how successfully, depends on untested talents. The old hands in South Yemen always wonder when the next coup will dash their frail hopes...