Word: preciousness
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...have enjoyed my share of great mealtime conversations with interesting tutors who live in my House. But the residential tutorial system should, in my opinion, provide more than good meal-time chats. Unless the system can be reinvigorated in such a way as to better justify devoting so many precious resources to the cause, the College would be wise to look to tutors first in the quest for more room in the Houses...
...fact, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 has previously expressed great concerns that distance learning initiatives might take up precious faculty time--time that would otherwise be devoted to students...
...After all, when music can be slathered around at this speed and scale with the click of a mouse (and at the low, low price of free), the Big Five record labels are starting to look positively negligent. They might as well have taken all that precious copyrighted music they invested so much time and money in, and left it out on the curb with the recycling. In the language of the playground: finders keepers, losers weepers...
Every new school shooting sets off a new debate over gun control. Pundits and educators get a few precious minutes on the national stage, hyping their points of view. And then, before anything substantive happens, the debate fades away...
...intelligence community has launched a deep probe into exactly what Hanssen may have turned over to Moscow during those years, but a colleague believes he "gave the whole bleeping thing away." Hanssen had extraordinary access to precious U.S. secrets invaluable to the intelligence services of first the Soviet Union and now Russia and delivered upwards of 6,000 pages of classified stuff into their hands. In the process, analysts believe he compromised every important human and electronic penetration of Russia for the past 15 years. A blue-ribbon panel has been set up to undertake a postmortem...