Word: lowered
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...captain Chris N. Avery '88 said that despite the loss of first place, Harvard's showing this year and last signaled a "resurgence" in the team's performance. In recent years, the chess team has finished lower than fifth place, he said...
Sandel's case, then, portends well for the possiblity of increasing the number of promotions of Harvard junior faculty members, but it does not necessarily guarantee it. Nor does it vindicate Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence's plan to lower the hurdles which junior faculty members must face in seeking tenure. Members of the Government Department and President Bok were all quick to point to high quality of Sandel's scholarship and how the young professor would have won tenure regardless of the University's newly articulated desire to tenure from within. That a young scholar as uniquely...
Past experience has shown that Harvard also has low incidences of such diseases as gonorrhea and syphilis, Wacker says. "The lower incidence of sexually transmitted diseases in general speaks to the fact that probably casual sex on a pick-up basis is not very common among the group. Otherwise we would have seen a higher level of incidence compared to the rest of the population," the director says...
...lone goal was scored three minutes into the second half off a penalty corner put into play by freshman Becky Gaffney. Gaffney hit the ball out to fellow frosh Ceci Clark, who stopped it dead for Erin O'Brien. O'Brien took a high-lifting shot, scoring in the lower right-hand corner of the cage...
...Bailie, who was born near Hanford in 1947 and is running for the Washington State legislature, feels the same bitterness. Bailie's father had surgery for colon cancer at 39, his mother had skin cancer, his two sisters have had their lower colons removed. "I have a big hole in my chest, and I'm sterile, and I have only 90% of my lung capacity," he says. Bailie lays his family's misfortunes, rightly or wrongly, on Hanford's doorstep. "Their business is to make bombs," he says. "Mine is to farm. I don't care what they do there...