Word: lessening
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spring, the UC created an actual task force determined to spice up our love lives. The Council initially earmarked between $1,000-2,000 in funding to combat the undergraduate dating crisis. The ingenious solutions included offering discounted movie tickets and a speaker series on dating etiquette to help lessen the burden of approaching that special someone. Even our new UC vice president was in on the idea: “Dating is pretty abysmal at Harvard,” explained Michael R. Blickstead ’05. “We realized it was a problem, so we created...
...desire to compete is what drives athletes. It’s what is so alluring to spectators. You can’t eliminate it. The only way to lessen the competitive pressures is to eliminate winning and losing altogether, like in five-year-old town tee-ball. Do they want Harvard and Yale to get together, throw a football around for sixty minutes and then bring Dr. Phil in to discuss how everyone’s a winner...
...known that if you carry extra weight around your waist, which they liken to being shaped like an apple, you are at greater risk of heart disease. The other configuration, being shaped like a pear, with excess weight around the hips, doesn't eliminate your risk but seems to lessen it. Over the years it has become clear that apple-shaped folks have a certain kind of metabolism: they are more likely to be resistant to insulin, have high amounts of triglycerides (one of the fatty molecules you don't want too much of in your blood) and have...
...Romney’s “civil unions” would establish equality without violating the rights of those who do not support gay marriage. Such unions could be open to both homosexual and heterosexual couples in place of religious marriages. They would in no way demean or lessen the status of homosexual individuals or create “separate but equal” institutions reminiscent of racial segregation. Instead, civil unions uphold the rights of all men and women, regardless of sexuality...
...Crimson (4-3-1, 3-3-1 ECAC) faces off against Colgate tonight at Starr Rink before spending Saturday night inside the electrifying confines of Cornell’s Lynah Rink. Two Harvard victories would lessen the pain of last weekend’s home 3-0 loss to Clarkson and give its rather inconsistent record a much-needed shot...