Word: godsend
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...demographic and economic figures, computers are a godsend, but they can have a narrowing effect in the humanities where they are only useful for lesser tasks," he said...
Nadkarni calls the Classics program a "godsend," and teammates speak similarly of him. John D. Solomon '85, who jumped from the JV program to the Classics at the same time as Nadkarni, remembers that "he put together a trip to France in 10 days for 12 lunatics, dealt with the language barrier, and did a tremendous...
...magazines and professional journals through data-base services like Lockheed's Dialog and Mead's NEXIS and LEXIS systems. LEXIS, for example, allows a subscriber to display on the computer screen the text of every federal court decision handed down in the past 30 years. The services are a godsend to researchers who regularly search through large numbers of documents for a few key words or phrases. A student doing a paper on juvenile delinquency, for example, can plug into a data bank and ask to see all the articles in which the words child and crime appear...
...Then we played a very inexperienced team, which was a godsend for us." "Cozza explains." It was still a victory and it gave us a little confidence...
While Mumford labeled university control over related grants as a "Godsend," he added that, "because the University is greedy, and wants to push up the overhead, they want us to keep more records We have three times as much paperwork...