Word: frequently
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...that you gave an interview to the Crimson earlier this fall in which you stated that you would be speaking out relatively infrequently on public issues because such interventions by high officials of an institution like Harvard--despite their strong initial impact--would likely suffer severely diminishing returns upon frequent repetition. Yet I can hardly think of a less appropriate use of your administration's prestige than Mr. Daly's letter to the Congress...
Many of the grammatical and lexical oppositions in language are not between equal members of a pair but between two entities one of which is more "marked" than the other (to use the technical term). The more marked member carries more information, lends to be less frequent, and always means exactly what it says. The less marked member carries less information, since it can be used ambiguously or as a cover term for both, tends to be the more frequent, and can be substituted for the marked member. Thus the plural is more marked than the singular, since, for example...
...Canton "has a face of shabby militancy." The sight of people eagerly studying Maoist literature, Terrill suggests, "would surely delight an eighteenth-century philosophe; the 'Word' is sovereign." He was amused to find that brassières, "though widely available in shops, were not, it seemed, in frequent...
This fall Harvard's theory of philanthropy is based on the timely interception. Through the first four games, the Crimson tossed away an average of only two interceptions, but since then interceptions have been more frequent and more catastrophic. Eric Crone made his way into the Princeton game and fired his only two completions to Princeton defenders...
...Carlson is campaigning against "NETMA"-his acronym for the frequent executive complaint that "nobody ever tells me anything." By the end of the year, he will complete a reorganization of United into three operating centers, each with its own profit-and-loss statement. He hopes that this first decentralization in airline history will bring headquarters executives into closer and quicker touch with what is happening in the field. He cites a trip that he made to Florida, during which he found that United's ticketing and check-in facilities were grossly inadequate, and ordered them to be improved. "That...