Word: major
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...that the 120-year-old institution would merge with Harvard, Radcliffe had been nearing the close of a seven-year, $100 million capital campaign. Though, as recently as two weeks ago, the campaign had a significant distance to go before reaching its goal, Radcliffe officials insisted they had several major gifts in the works...
...demanded improvements to the poorly planned Katherine Bogdanovich Loker Commons. The administration's knee-jerk hiring of a consultant produced radical reform, including the installation of a TV room. Yet Loker's rep has not considerably improved; many still clamor for a student center. The TV room reveals one major hurdle to any proposed student center: Harvard social ineptitude...
Because graduate student workers are seldom full-time, they often are not covered by the policies protecting other employees. Mitchell sees "casualization" as the major problem facing Yale and other institutions currently...
While the students at UCLA have not received benefits like those at Ann Arbor or Wisconsin, they recently won a major legal battle when UCLA TAs and other graduate teachers voted to be represented by an affiliate...
...choice seems to be a deliberate mockery of the ordinary criteria for choosing commencement speakers. Neither Click nor Clack is a Nobel laureate; neither is a major world leader; neither an august academic. Why, then has one of the world's greatest universities chosen them? Well, probably because both of them are something you, with all due respect, are not reputed to be: funny...