Word: reliefer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like so many genetic discoveries these days, the new findings are likely to be a mixed blessing. A screening test could identify people at high risk of osteoporosis even at birth. That knowledge would provide relief for some parents and their offspring -- and certain worry for others. But researchers stress that having the B form of the vitamin D receptor gene does not doom people to a severe case of the disease...
...University’s accommodation of “the demands of work and family,” by creating new parental leave guidelines and requiring that each school have a written policy, Hammonds says. According to Mansbridge, the new policy automatically grants a semester of paid teaching relief to new parents, responding to concerns that childcare policies were not well-publicized or automatically applied, she adds.Each school may tailor these minimum guidelines to satisfy its needs. Mansbridge, who served on the Task Force on Women Faculty last year, said that the Task Force found it difficult to set central...
...firing off an e-mail. Perhaps even classes would be fairer as compiling 40-page study guides that offer delinquent students the opportunity to sneak by with a B-plus would be much more challenging to coordinate. Keystroke, click, send—the Harvard soundtrack.But what a liberating relief to be unreachable for a while. Friends often joke about the strange sensation that overtakes them when they suddenly drop their cell phone in the river or leave it stranded in a bar bathroom; just like that, they become a ghost for a day before reconnecting at T-Mobile. For those...
...pressing need for an eighth house, a hygiene building, a theatre, and other improvements amounting to $40 million, there has been a general tendency to feel that all was pretty much all right at Harvard, while all was not quite right with the world. Several sighs of relief were breathed throughout the year as people became increasingly aware of the passing of the McCarthy menace. We felt, however, that precautions must be taken for the future: Eisenhower’s provision for an impartial board to handle security hearings was considered an improvement, but youthful and quite justifiable idealism still...
...Zhou said.However, federal legislation to increase the number of H-1B visas available is pending, according to Sharon Ladd, the director of Harvard’s international office.“Since the business community is very interested in expanding the cap, it is likely that there will be relief in this area,” she wrote in an e-mail.Some students were more fortunate than Rana.Victor V. Bicalho ’06 said he submitted his petition on May 25, and was told by lawyers for his future employer, Goldman Sachs, that it was filed on time.Other students said...