Word: obvious
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...that link disappeared. Instead, one had to write an email explaining why he or she did not want to pay the $75. Moreover, by 2008 one had to handwrite that same letter and send it to the Student Receivables Office. There is, in short, an obvious and disturbing pattern toward making the opt-out process more annoying and time-consuming than it ever should have been...
...mere five for the Wildcats, but the Crimson could not get past UNH’s ace netminder.Harvard out-shot the Wildcats, 37-13, for the game.“By the end of the game, both teams were playing two lines, so everyone was exhausted. It was obvious on the ice,” Vaillancourt said. “[The game] was kind of back and forth, and there wasn’t really a time that they were dominating and we weren’t.”Harvard’s overall weakness in goals this season...
...mention of taking August 6, 2001, warning of imminent terrorism more seriously •responsibility for collapse of economy on watch of is awkwardly placed by on "decisions that were made...over a decade or so, before I arrived in President, during I arrived in President" •the seemingly obvious - "I don't feel joyful when somebody loses their life, nor do I feel joyful from somebody loses a job" - is clumsily stated by •wish that Saddam actually had had weapons of mass destruction is expressed...
...Democratic primary season focused largely on the question of who was better equipped to be Commander in Chief. In bringing in retired Marine general James Jones as his National Security Adviser and retaining Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Obama is turning to two men who might have seemed more obvious choices had John McCain won the White House. And all three were on the opposite side from Obama on the defining foreign policy decision of the past decade: whether to invade Iraq...
...newcomer and the more experienced matriarch wrestle over whose way is best. "There's a concern that the values and norms of a different culture will take your son and your grandchildren away from the values and norms embedded in your own family," says Apter. "Sometimes this is an obvious concern about ethnic differences or religious differences"; sometimes it's about whose job it is to do the ironing. "From women of the older generation, there was a sense of being frozen out of the relationship," says Apter. "And from the younger generation, a sense of constant disapproval or intrusion...