Word: mull
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Kids today feel safer than they did five years ago? Did the pollsters feed the data into the wrong hole? These are the questions no doubt running through the minds of parents and educators as they mull the counterintuitive results of a New York Times/CBS poll, released Wednesday, which shows that the vast majority of American teenagers feel somewhat safe, safe or extremely safe in their schools. In 1994, 40 percent of teenagers worried they would be a victim of violence in school or on the street. Today, only 24 percent fear for their safety. (The results are virtually identical...
...summer before I came to Harvard, I spent a few weeks trying to decide what my name would be when I got here. I had a lot of idle time at my job as a short-order cook on a ferry in Long Island Sound, enough to mull over the stories I had heard of people coming to college and changing their names. I didn't have a problem with the sound of my name, Alan, and I've never been crazy about my middle name, Eric. After running the choices by some of my co-workers on the ferry...
While attendees in Cambridge were at leastgiven one proposal for the restructuring ofRadcliffe to mull over--a plan authored by sixHarvard female faculty members and presented atthe meeting--one general problem alumnae bemoanedwas the lack of information provided by Radcliffeadministrators...
...heels of a smash success, any new album is like a second date. Everyone has had time to mull things over and to build up unreasonable expectations. Things went so well the last time, but that only makes the pressure even greater. You have to live up to that great first impression, every nuance can suddenly turn self-conscious and, worst of all, you can finally make that big blunder that you miraculously avoided last time round. Beck's new album, Mutations, suffers from these post-success symptoms all over the place. Rather than depart too much from his established...
While Radcliffe enjoyed the international publicity from its Publishing Course's "100 Best Novels" list this summer, its leaders continued to mull the future of the 119-year-old institution in secret negotiations with top officials from Harvard University...