Word: lows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Raines expressed a guarded optimism regarding Fannie Mae's continuing role in helping improve family life in the years ahead. With the economy as strong as it has ever been, the constant low unemployment and minimal inflation have helped black families make significant strides in overcoming the economic obstacles they face today, but further progresscan still be made, Raines said...
...also have a way of being the solution to every problem, from low profit margins in mega-corporations to low test scores in public schools. Politicians and CEOs are racing to the soap box arm in arm, hailing you as the way out. If only the kids could have computers, maybe they'd become more literate, stop smoking cigarettes and cancel that shooting spree they were planning for the nonexistent recess...
...wrong. I can think of many ways you've been of service to me and to the world. For example, using your well-known alias "e-mail," you enable millions to communicate with each other over vast distances at low cost. Here at Harvard, in the face of randomized upper-class housing, e-mail lists have allowed scattered friends to maintain a sense of cohesion, if only virtual...
...utilize the space on the walls of the Science Center (where science lectures are currently listed) for similar large-scale announcements. Fourth, allow announcements to be chalked up on the side boards of the Science Center lecture halls. Fifth, permit the use of temporary sidewalk chalk, thereby providing a low-cost and cleaner alternative to covering the pathways with posters. Sixth, install monitors to advertise events in major classroom buildings such as Sever and Harvard Halls, and in other prominent campus locations such as the vestibule of Currier House where students wait for the shuttle. Finally, continue to build more...
...this fundraising season. It's no secret that the Harvard Radcliffe relationship has been a bit strained lately. And it's been clear for some time that this is no mere marital spat. Radcliffe alumnae opened (or reopened) the battle last year by taking Harvard to task for the low percentage of women in its tenured faculty. They implied that if Harvard women want to help Harvard women, they'd do better to donate to Radcliffe than to stuff the coffers of the old boys club...