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...There are departments that give mothers single offices, so that they can bring their kid in and they can nurse, and they don’t have to walk to Holyoke Center to pump milk,” Ruff said. “And then there are departments that are like, ‘Go have fun in the library carrels...
...bounced a shot by the goalie for a 3-0 Harvard lead. “We had good practices all week,” Motschwiller said. “The preparation was good. We came out today and got off to a hot start and it was good to pump in a few early.” Before the period came to a close, Stony Brook posted a pair of goals for itself narrowing the score to 3-2. Harvard sat on a 4-2 lead for most of the second period after Fehr’s second goal...
...Such a drop, called a loss of circulation, isn't uncommon in gas drilling. It usually means that natural fractures inside the borehole are allowing drilling fluid to leak out. Lapindo's engineers responded by pumping heavy drilling mud into the well to seal the cracks and restore pressure. Then they began to pull out the drill. Davies thinks that while they were removing the drill on the morning of May 28, they set off a massive "kick," in which high-pressure water and gas from the surrounding rock flowed into, rather than out of, the borehole. To prevent...
...growth will slow again, un employment will rise and inflation will creep upward over the next twelve to 18 months. Most of the government's economists are bracing for a jump in joblessness to 3.3 million by this fall. Nonetheless, the Prime Minister is unlikely to resort to Keynesian pump priming even if her policies remain slow to work. At one of the most critical times of her first term, when she was being pressed by many in her Cabinet to reflate the economy by some $5 billion, she uttered the now famous words: "The lady is not for turning...
Harvard men wishing to pump iron have fewer places to do so, thanks to a recent policy implemented by the Harvard Recreation Department. Following a campaign by a contingent of undergraduate women (including a number of whom are involved in the Harvard College Women’s Center or are members of religious groups such as the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS)), the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) will now hold women-only hours for six hours a week. The change in policy shows a readiness to put minority interests ahead of the entire community, even when it creates a disparity...