Word: reasonably
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...said that one reason they had decided to resign was that the two plan to travel extensively over the next few years. He said that if they remained at Dunster House, students would have had to deal with acting masters from time to time...
...Mean It's Free?: One major reason why the Crimson has been playing better is improvement at the free throw line, especially near the end of the game...
...another gripe: three years ago in Providence Harvard lost in the NCAA finals for the same reason, physical fatigue, because the Division I schools don't have the guts or integrity to tell the arena owners that they will no longer put up with this nonsense of playing one semifinal on Thursday night and the other on Friday night. Not long ago The Globe revealed that the Thursday night winners had won 19 out of the previous 22 NCAA finals. I predict that Harvard will be finalists again this year. We better start praying that they get the Thursday night...
...survey conducted for TIME last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 77% of those polled said they oppose a mandatory service charge. One reason may be that the typical service charge is larger than the tip that most customers generally leave. When diners were asked how much they usually tip, the average came to 14%. Even so, some customers welcome the change. Says Michael Fawcett, manager of the Rattlesnake Club in Denver: "People really like it, because they don't have to figure out the check anymore...
These gains in rote learning are offset by a worrisome inability to reason effectively. More than 60% of all high school students cannot understand the material they read, including newspaper stories or topics they study in class. Fully a fourth of all 13-year-olds fail to grasp the principles of basic math. That problem is apparently not remedied in high school, where almost half of all students are unable to solve problems using decimals, percentages, basic geometry or algebra...