Word: preciousness
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...highest score of 35,000 recruits on a Navy intelligence test. Trained as a hospital corpsman, he saw North Vietnam's devastating Tet offensive in 1968. Says his wife Claire Fraser, a prominent molecular biologist: "Vietnam changed him. It impressed on him the idea that time is precious, that you have to make every single minute of every single day count...
...ticket. But coach class makes me miserable because I am folded up like a lawn chair and stuck in a seat I couldn't fit in when I was 12 and with no real place to move, especially after the bozo in front of me reclines his seat those precious three inches. He may not think much of taking those three inches, but it means a whole helluva lot to me. If this were a utilitarian calculation, my discomfort would be to his comfort as Harvard's endowment is to my checking account...
...architectural critics and booklovers alike predicted that the Main would set a new standard for libraries--a spiffy, sparkling alternative to old caverns like Widener. But as the glow of newness fades, the Main is looking more and more like a white elephant, a politically correct community center with precious little academic heft...
...really make me feel any better. And now, after enduring the onslaught of "Melissa," the "Love Bug" and now "Stages," I've just about had it. I want some answers. Who are these people and why are they so bent on destroying my hard drive and depriving me of precious e-mail...
...Students, to say nothing of faculty, have far more commitments than they once did, and precious little time to devote to the life of the House...