Word: pose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, they scoff at University administrators' concerns that the sky-rocketing costs of employee benefits plans need to be reined in before they pose a serious threat to Harvard's financial health. It seems the staff hasn't heard of the nationwide obsession with benefits--does the Clinton health care plan ring any bells?--or the fact that every respectable corporation this side of Havana is reviewing employee health insurance options, pension plans and the like...
Council members has voiced concerns that theprogram might pose safety risks for studentsinvolved...
...narrator, detach himself from his impending death from AIDS so that he may live for now, so that the marital problems of his best friends, are as important to him as his own death? And on the heels of that, there is another question, one which we may pose: can we detach this novel, which follows Hector's progress toward his death, from Mr. Kondoleon's own, in light of the fact that the author moved from HIV positive status to "full-blown" AIDS four years...
Similarly foreign languages also pose particular challenges for dyslexic students. Alice Garside, Meisel's predecessor at MGH, says, "One of the things that worries me in the renewed focus of education is everyone is going gung-ho about learning foreign languages. But what they have to recognize is that it's going to be extremely difficult for some students...
...majority of men and women on this campus maintain body weights that in no way pose any real threat to their health. However, Cucci describes the horrors of fat and weight gain in a manner more suitable for a Puritan diatribe against sin than a rational plan for greater fitness. He presents overeating as a "temptation" that the strong can resist but through which the weak snack their way to their eventual "self-destruction." Those who eat therefore lack discipline and control and need to be saved from their own cravings...