Word: layers
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...faculty look upon the new divisional deans with enthusiasm. With the deans comes an additional bureaucratic layer, which has worried many professors who fear the move may drastically reduce their time with, and access to, Kirby. These concerns are certainly valid, but the role of these new deans—to increase communication and enhance academic initiatives—will mostly likely counteract any potential reduction in access...
...CONSIDER A COVERDELL ACCOUNT TOO It gives the same federal-tax breaks and entry into almost any mutual fund without an added layer of fees, though you can put away only $2,000 a year and wealthy contributors are excluded. --By Barbara Kiviat...
...takes his cues from his collaborators' melodies. On Queens of the Stone Age's throbbing, bass-driven Songs for the Deaf, Grohl set the frantic pace and then stayed out of the way, while on Cat Power's You Are Free his style is more impressionistic, adding a layer of sadness to the songs. For Killing Joke's reunion album, Grohl went back to his punk roots and banged away...
...often with big-name U.S. stars in the cast) seem to be reveling in the worst of the U.S. In the current hit revival of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Matthew Perry and Hank Azaria leave all their charm at passport control as they add an extra layer of bile to Mamet's caustic portrait of the battle of the sexes in the Midwestern heartland...
...careful look at the manuscript peels back yet another layer. Inserted into the sentence about his pilgrim's progress up Market Street is a phrase, written in the margin, in which he notes that he passed by the house of his future wife Deborah Read and that "she, standing at the door, saw me and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward ridiculous appearance." So here we have, in a brief paragraph, the multilayered character known so fondly to his author as Benjamin Franklin: as a young man, then seen through the eyes of his older self...