Word: headroom
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...goal of the cutback, Smith said, is to create “resource headroom,” so that when academic plans are ready to be executed at the end of next school year, FAS will have greater flexibility...
...argued that the Faculty and students could also use more resources.With regard to the upcoming drop in hiring, Smith said that arresting growth is necessary so that upcoming projects, including expansion into Allston and improvements to pedagogy, can be implemented without running out of “resource headroom.”A FIRM HANDAlso at yesterday’s meeting, the Faculty voted on a rare motion to dismiss a student from the College. Such motions are tantamount to a permanent severance of ties with Harvard. A two-thirds vote by the Faculty is required to pass the motion...
...which Lawson cites as a model for the cavemen spots--owes a debt to the deadpan ads from FedEx, Monster.com and so on that target the same upscale demographic. The crossover hasn't always worked: Baby Bob, a talking-baby sitcom based on an ad, was insipid. But Max Headroom, a black-humored sci-fi series based on a Coca-Cola campaign itself based on a British TV show, was brilliantly subversive, set in a media-saturated dystopia in which it was illegal to turn...
...original version of this article referred to the series Max Headroom as a "sitcom". It is more accurate to describe it as a "black-humored sci-fi series...
...have all these phrases knocking around in your head. The novelist's ego is such that any praise is instantly absorbed and then brings you up to where you should be already. But any dispraise can really get in your head. And I don't want to give it headroom, so I stay away. But I'm aware that it's gone down well. And it's a lot better than it going down badly...