Word: second-hand
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...Romano, academic understanding, book-learning, is not sufficient either. "I don't think it's enough to intellectualize it. By nature, it's second-hand and it's fiction...
Recent research has concluded that second-hand smoke is at least as potent as "active" smoking. People who have never touched a cigarette in their lives are dying of lung cancer. Science has confirmed in the past few years what most people have suspected all along: Smoking kills the smoker and those closest to the smoker...
...Enforce existing anti-smoking regulations at Harvard. Smoking in common areas of dormitories, houses and other campus buildings is prohibited by Massachusetts law, Cambridge ordinance and Harvard regulation. Yet it happens all the time. Non-smokers should not be subjected to second-hand smoke drifting across a cafeteria or lingering in a hallway or entryway...
...None of the deans have ever been to one of our board meetings. None of the deans have ever had any conversations with me," said Wallace. "Everything they said in the letter was obviously reliant on second-hand information...
Books will be sold at 60 percent of the retail price, with 50 percent being returned to the sellers, and the other 10 percent going to PBH, Lawrence said. Most second-hand bookstores pay sellers about 25 percent of the retail price...