Word: pose
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City officials also said they have reduced theamount of certain chemical compounds in Cambridgewater to levels that no longer pose a threat tohuman health. In 1990, the city admitted that thewater supply had been contaminated bytrihalomethanes, potentially cancer causingsubstances created when organic waste mixes withchlorine in treated water...
...loosening of strictures will throw older and younger people together in the same classrooms. That might pose an instructional problem: What level does the teacher aim for? But within a few decades, technology will make it possible to provide tailored instruction within a single class. Students will become adept at using interactive multimedia, a system consisting of computers, exhaustive data bases of information, moving images and sound...
...hard to conceive how the gentle patter of fingers over a computer keyboard could do such damage. People have, after all, been typing for decades, and computers would seem to be an improvement over clunky ) typewriters. But word processors pose special problems. They allow workers to sit with their fingers flying across the keyboard at 240 strokes a minute for hours without a break. A typewriter, by contrast, forces workers to pause every so often to move the carriage or change the paper. The amount of time spent at the keyboard is critical: a study in Australia found that people...
Emphasize the positive in an interview. One employer told students never to apologize for their concentrations. Stress the value of your liberal arts education - you have learned to think, to communicate, to analyze problems and pose solutions. Don't downgrade any menial work experience you may have had. Some work experience is better than none; at the very least, you have been part of an organization and learned how it functioned. If you worked your way through Harvard, that effort itself will win the respect of many employers...
Hoogvliets said students who take more food than they eat and more napkins than they need pose a menace to an efficient program...