Word: rife
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...true, for example, that most conventional heating and cooling systems are rife with energy inefficiencies on a far greater scale than household lighting. Unfortunately, environmentally friendly heating systems are still prohibitively costly for most consumers. Light bulbs are not. If we always discount every feasible solution as too minor, we will simply end up doing nothing...
...little shorter with a brown top hat...matching his brown and khaki detective safari getup.” Cabot, which tied with Lowell House for this year’s cup, was first in line to house the award. The theft incited a siege of e-mails, rife with accusations and calls for retaliation, over the Cabot House open list. Mather House, last year’s Green Cup winner, was the primary suspect identified in the e-mail chain. “Someone saw the Green Cup being carried past Dunster to Mather,” said Thomas...
...online prevention program” that all rising freshman were required to suffer through this year to teach us how not to kill ourselves by alcohol. A course which supposedly takes “2-3 hours to complete,” Alcohol Edu is so rife with technical errors and misleading information that it is more likely to be a complete waste of twice that amount of time...
...accuser and passed into the hands of District Attorney Mike Nifong, another series of unprofessional misjudgments began. Nifong allegedly demonstrated personal disdain for the attorneys representing the accused, appeared to have violated the policies of Durham Police Department in conducting a lineup, and ultimately pursued a case rife with holes and hearsay, an abject abuse of the district attorney’s fundamental task of pursuing justice and justice alone. The American legal system, convoluted though it may be, is bound at its axis to the idea of finding and reaching justice while taking into account the lives and livelihoods...
...form of small talk. And Bayard’s idea that shared reading provides community is right on.Harvard is filled with societies devoted to various forms of the high arts. Anyone who’s been to the events of such organizations knows that they can be rife with pretension and snarky comments, people showing off what they know and pretending to know more than they do.Books can provide entrance into cultured circles the same way obscure bands can help you be a hipster or knowledge of Britney’s disdain for underwear can establish your pop culture credentials...