Word: scoped
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...resist earmarks on donations. Many an endowed chair has been created in anticipation of preferential treatment for the generous donor’s offspring—but the money might be better spent on expanding financial aid, or funding study abroad. In an open trade, Harvard could demand more scope to spend the money as it sees fit. Needless to say, it could be uncomfortable for the student in question to know that her place was bought for her, but with the appropriate non-disclosure agreements, and perhaps delayed payment for a few years, no one need ever...
...family - once at the very heart of many European nations - is being replaced by something different: "A comforting sprawl of co-opted friends and family members acquired by divorce and remarriage." Increasing longevity, says Mayer, "means families extend vertically through generations as well as horizontally." A project of this scope requires considerable team planning and effort, and I'm enormously grateful to all the writers, reporters, editors, photographers, picture editors, art directors and researchers who worked on this anniversary issue. Ledbetter says the aim of the project was to "capture what Europe is really about today." That it does...
Trash is indeed cash for an increasing number of firms--from 1-800-GOT-JUNK, the garbage collector that's grown more than 400% in five years, to municipal recycling depots nationwide. It's hard to measure the scope of the waste-recovery industry--as Szaky says, garbage is only called garbage until enough people want it. But demand for trash is evident in growing markets and rising prices for by-products that used to be dirt cheap, free or off-loaded with a cash kicker--such things as tire chips and crumb rubber, organic waste, even restaurant grease. "Resource...
...SBAC, Kidd wrote in an an e-mail. But “all of the work of the Student Business Advisory Committee is confidential,” she added. Jones and Schofield-Bodt are adamant that their Harvard tours differ significantly from all others—listing their scope and off-beat, performance-like qualities as reasons why. Jones told podcast “Boston Behind The Scenes” in August that “unlike the other tours that are often times dry and extremely lame, to be honest...our tours tend to be much more funny...
When asked if the commission’s recommendations could result in changes to the alcohol policy, however, Drake wrote that the goal is to “find ways to make the tailgate the best it can be within the scope of the laws of the Commonwealth and the rules set forth by the Boston Police Department and the deans...