Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, Harvard has delayed and wavered, making a colossal mess of what was a forthright decision. First, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, from whom we expected much more, set up a student-faculty committee to study the issue just a few months before the ultimatum was to take effect. To make matters worse, that committee requested a five-month extention on its own deadline, until just last week...
Then the bureaucratic mess began. Last April, the Committee on Educational Policy received the outline for review. The committee consists of an assortment of deans mainly concerned with the availability of resources for such a major and is chaired by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles...
...rather morbid topics, the music has an almost life-like flexibility to it. Like magic, Alice in Chains knows when the attention of ordinary mortals tends to wane; that's when they fire off a jagged riff, or slow down so that Staley's guitar can emerge from a mess of noise and cry out a few soul-twisting notes...
Take Nick's Beef and Beer Haus, remove the log appointments from the wall-mounted red flame lamps, add orange vinyl-backed chairs, two dozen round fake-wood tables and a whole mess of American flags and voila--you have the scene for the September 21 Clinton/Gore campaign organizing meeting in Cambridge...
...WOULD DO THE BEST JOB of leading the U.S. out of its economic mess? Would it be President Bush, who advocates tax cuts to unleash what Republicans like to call the magic of the marketplace? Or Bill Clinton, who wants to use the power of Washington to rebuild America's creaky infrastructure and pour resources into job-training programs...