Word: meres
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With Gonzalez out in front with a two-day total of 152 (78-74) and Deardourff not far behind with a 155 (77-78), Harvard edged out Dartmouth by two and was a mere 12 points behind Northeast power Yale...
...weeks ago, the team devastated rival Boston University with a score of 5-0. It appeared that the scoring woes that had plagued the team earlier in the season would become a mere memory...
Jiang is taking a considerable risk to speak at Harvard--an invitation he could quite easily have ducked. The mere fact that he is coming at all suggests that he is listening to the more enlightened among his retinue of advisers. That deserves a pat on the back, not a rap across the knuckles.--Stephen Hutcheon, fellow, Shorenstein Center, Kennedy School of Government
...string of popular movies-of-the-week. Is this skill? Or her luck in having an arresting face, pretty yet shovel-like (she cops only to a nose job)? Whatever one thinks of such fare as Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?, her longevity is a feat that transcends mere patronage; just ask Sofia Coppola. "Tori's got acting chops--she's just been doing awful material," says House of Yes director Mark Waters, who had seen Spelling only in Co-ed Call Girl before casting her. As it happens, The House of Yes is a Spelling Films presentation...
...setting records again and the investing public had learned, rightly or wrongly, to buy when the market drops. The bigger the decline, the greater the opportunity. So goes the dogma of the day, and it is ironic that the greatest one-day plunge ever--the 1929 crash was a mere 12%--was the springboard for today's equity culture, which professes one elixir for every financial ailment: buy-and-hold...