Word: hike
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...problem with time. There he was in April, standing in a grove of 3,000-year-old giant sequoias in central California, about to declare them a national monument as part of his green legacy. But the Secret Service told him he had only 10 minutes for a "hike in the woods." Clinton bounded off through the sequoias, fascinated by the 300-ft. skyscrapers that spring from a seed smaller than a rice grain. He returned, behind schedule, to make his designation speech before zipping off by helicopter to a fund raiser in southern California...
Strait has created an atelier in the house for her new career as a figurative sculptor. Anderson is working on his French. The couple hike on dozens of marked trails that meander through tiny villages. They keep in constant touch with the outside world using the Internet...
...student group term bill fee. Having once decided that students at Harvard do not know what is good for them and cannot be trusted to vote in their own interest, the staff has now taken the logical next step and called for Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 to hike the term bill fee unilaterally--and last week, he announced plans to do just that. Such a unilateral hike would be offensive and counterproductive, and the Faculty should oppose the term bill increase if it does not have student support...
Some have argued that because payment of the term bill is voluntary, the hike will not actually inconvenience students. But the only way a term bill hike raises money is by giving students who used to pay $20 a choice of $50 or nothing. This highlights the practical danger in raising the term bill fee--that it might not bring in more money if students refuse to pay, in which case the whole exercise of ignoring student votes will have been for naught...
Presidential candidate Stephen N. Smith '02 also supports the term bill hike, partly because he believes that a student referendum is too cumbersome...