Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poor job. He had access to high-caliber weapons in his stepfather's gun cabinet, yet he chose a low-powered .22 rifle to shoot up his high school. He was a practiced shot, yet he aimed low. He was literally a Boy Scout, a pleasant 15-year-old kid who went to church and didn't care for Goth life or Marilyn Manson or Duke Nukem or any of the other cultural markers we have come to expect from our kid killers...
...people here feel the administration is doing a good job to turn things around and make it a more pleasant place," says Laurie Deiner, a second-year graduate student. "You certainly feel cared about and that your problems will be addressed...
...people here feel the administration is doing a good job to turn things around and make it a more pleasant place," says Laurie Deiner, a second-year grad student. "You certainly feel cared about and that your problems will be addressed...
...long haul, officers are going to findthat working in an organization in which there isone clear sense of what the mission [will maketheir jobs] more pleasant," he said
...invested with both anticipation and dread--is once again underway. The squadron of landscape-artists has been unleashed; like Stravinsky, they aspire to create a magnum opus of the season's rituals. With ardor, with bags of dirt, they have already begun to transform the Yard from a relatively pleasant, serene meadow into a confusion of cordons, chemical grass simulacra and bare patches of earth hideous to behold. Harvard subsists on tradition: the Yard is made repellent each spring and this one is no different. Why bother, one is compelled to wonder. Why go to all the time and expense...