Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...meager Harvard training quickly proved insufficient to handle the rigors of FSU social life. By day seven of my research excursion to FSU, even the milk in my morning corn flakes started to reek of the taste of Natty Light. My inability to withstand seven days of the lifestyle that many FSU students have spent four (or more) college years perfecting proves that nature may be a limiting factor in one’s quest to become the perfect partier. Yet, even if the average Harvard man or woman is not meant to party like they mean it every night...
...statute’s enforcement. First, he must do the best he can to protect men’s sports while promoting equality. The method to achieve true equality in schools is not to decrease the number of opportunities for men—thereby giving everyone a meager, albeit equal, selection of sports. The solution is to create a new mechanism for compliance that relies on providing more funding to female sports without doing away with men’s opportunities to participate on teams like wrestling, which often faces elimination under the status...
...harsh realities of the transportation system currently in place—a cramped roadway, meager city bus service, and a still-growing shuttle system—have kept faculty and planners buzzing with ideas that range from the practical to the whimsical...
It’s hard to imagine how the Harvard players could motivate themselves to come out for the second half after Rutgers (5-2) limited the Crimson to a meager seven points in the first frame. But Harvard did, and it showed some improvement before ultimately losing...
...themselves. The White House has been reluctant to curb his consolidation of power at the Pentagon, particularly his plan to tighten the military's grip on intelligence gathering. After his star turn as prime-time war boss last fall, Rumsfeld spent much of this year defending the Administration's meager efforts to rebuild Afghanistan--and then selling America on the threat posed by Iraq. Careful that Bush not be seen as an extremist, Pentagon aides insist Rumsfeld has actually restrained the march toward war championed by his hawkish deputies, who are busy pushing for stepped-up covert propaganda efforts--even...