Word: harshness
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...hard: A very harsh adjective to describe someone who, literally, tries just a little too hard, to the point of being irritating in their eagerness to please. Boys and girls, don’t try this at home: reserve for only the very worst of first dates...
...after all, vital to remember that Harvard’s need to expand in Allston only came about because of Cambridge’s harsh zoning restrictions and Harvard’s poor relations with the city’s politicians. Ultimately, it was not the strident opposition of locals—like the fool who said of Harvard’s proposed modern art museum in the Riverside neighborhood, “if you build it, we’re going to bomb it”—that drove the University from pursuing further expansion in Cambridge...
...down a samurai rebellion against the new, dishonorable, Westernizing ways that his army symbolizes. In the first, brilliantly staged fight, Algren is captured by the samurai and sequestered for a long winter in their remote village, where there's nothing much to do but learn the harsh yet entirely admirable samurai code...
...alarming rate and traumatizing the women and children of our nation.” Statistics show that sexual assault occurs every 45 seconds in America. But it is the attacks in our own backyard, despite declining rates of crime in Cambridge as a whole, which is shedding a harsh light on issues of concern to many undergraduates...
Regardless of the outcome of an investigation, such a harsh management-employee conflict highlights a need for more sensitivity training. A program with this goal already exists—Harvard recently updated its training program for supervisors and managers. The new program came out of a report from the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) and the resulting Training Advisory Group. Though the program’s development has been completed and, according to a Office of Human Resources report last summer, hundreds of supervisors and managers have gone through the three-session course, it is immensely important...