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...findings are accurate, ideas about atmospheric evolution might have to be revised. The two admit the results "are still very preliminary," but they insist the method is sound...
Foreign leaders, however, attach one enormous condition, and it brings economic arguments full circle. They will not risk overstimulating their economies and inducing a new round of inflation for the sake of enabling America to continue living beyond its means. They will insist on a meaningful slash in the American budget deficit. The fear of inflation is particularly strong in West Germany, which was still raising interest rates shortly before Black Monday, to the intense displeasure of the U.S. German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg last week hinted at what would be required to get Bonn to change course. Said...
Despite these house-based academic elements,students continue to look to their departments forintellectual concerns. Part of the problem lies inthe fact that the large number of concentrationsmakes it impossible for houses to have a residenttutor in every field. In addition, manydepartments insist that the graduate student orprofessor who teaches an undergraduate's tutorialsign his or her study card. As a result, studentssay they have become accustomed to going to theirdepartment office for academic advice...
Hopefully, you no longer object to sentences that begin with the modifier hopefully. If you do, forget it; the battle is lost. On the other hand, if you still insist that infer and imply mean two different things, hang tough, despite accusations of being a word prig; this is one the word prigs could win. As for the plural-singular identity crises suffered by words like data and media, stand by; they could go either...
Many Harvard students are intrigued by classmates who insist on breaking into worthwhile discussion in order to excitedly point out the most unarguable, obvious aspects of the subject. Furthermore, there is general confusion on why a large group of Harvard undergraduates tend to reflect on their own accomplishments with the same reverence that is normally reserved for octogenarians remembering the "good old days...