Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Unabomber could easily strike again, more than once, before this happens -- and he suggests the attacks could become more devastating. "We expect," he writes, "we will be able to pack deadly bombs into ever smaller, lighter and more harmless looking packages. On the other hand, we believe we will be able to make bombs much bigger than any we've made before. With a briefcase-full or a suitcase-full of explosives we should be able to blow out the walls of substantial buildings...
...Sciences Christoph Wolff, one of the strongest defenders of Harvard's current policy on the Ph.D., contends that giving the power to award the degree to the professional schools would undermine interfaculty cooperation and increase competition for star professors, who will be attracted to the higher salaries and lighter workloads of the wealthier graduate schools...
...added that as a young girl, she had always seen pictures of her Black father's family, but never saw any of her mother's lighter-skinned relatives...
...problems in the Core originate from two sources: there are not enough offerings within the Core and the classes offered are too specific. If the number and breadth of offerings were to be increased, students would be happier, the load on professors and teaching fellows would be lighter, and the Core would not seem as much of a burden as it does...
...larger course offerings in each topic would also improve other areas of the Core. It would decrease the number of students in each class and lighten the teaching load for professors and graduate students. The lighter load would mean a better education in the class for students...