Word: merely
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Even the school's birth in the winter of 1936 was a relatively quiet event, a mere shuffling of papers and shifting of offices. That's because the three departments that now make up the GSD--architecture, landscape design, and urban planning--had already been in existence here for many years...
Allison says that by its mere existence, the Kennedy School has achieved its first goal of proving that "it is possible to have a professional school of government and put it on a sound, long-term footing...
...innumerable addicts who do not have employers or insurance companies willing to pay. Clinics and residential programs that depend on a mix of private donations and government funding are jammed to overflowing; tales of three-month waiting lists to get in are common. Last year Washington counted a mere 269,711 people in treatment programs that receive government assistance, and federal funding for treatment has actually been reduced in the past four years...
...black jacket, Gaddafi paused at one point during his speech to allow young Libyan women dressed in battle fatigues to chant cheerleader-style, "Down, down, U.S.A." Announcing that he planned to consult with his Libyan "people's committees" about withdrawing from the nonaligned, he called the summit a mere exchange of courtesies. "We meet," he said. "We eat together, we travel long distances and laugh together. In the cause of freedom we should not be nice to each other...
Harvard offered its first course in architectural design in 1893, and a full-fledged architecture school, the nation's seventh, materialized a mere two years later. The pioneering lansdcape designer Frederick Law Olmstead founded the first program of Landscape Architecture in the country...