Word: manner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems that the highly autonomous schools of the University are slowly coming together, if in a very informal, ad-hoc manner...
...airlines' secretive and sometimes high-handed manner doesn't help. Passengers are routinely herded onto planes and only afterward told they must endure an hourlong air-traffic delay. Big discount fares are advertised widely, but prices seem to slide up and down with little explanation. Nor will the airlines reveal how many discount seats are allocated on flights (the number varies according to demand for the flight, with the goal of maximizing revenue). And the airlines have drained most of the spontaneity from the nation's leisure-time travel, with those money-saving but anxiety-producing "nonrefundable" fares, which require...
Also, the University invests some of its assetsin the same equities and in a manner similar tohedge funds, private investment funds, whichperform risky trading in options and otherderivatives. As markets have dropped, these fundshave been forced to liquidate their positions atdistressed prices, lowering the value of Harvard'sassets...
Fair Harvard, my friends, still has a bit of dust swept under the rug. And though the council still deals with pressing student issues, it does so in a friendlier and more efficient manner. By virtue of being Harvard students, we are all blessed with excellently refined critical skills. We are all capable of looking around the campus and seeing with clear and precise vision that some things are wrong or unfair or poorly done...
Rather than simply defending homosexuality, new queer cinema seeks to address social issues in a creative, energetic and clever manner that appeals to wider audiences...