Word: semis
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...city to basic economic changes which radically altered the occupational structure of the central cities. As big industry moved out of the cities in the 1970s, the job market in the inner city increasingly consisted of service-sector jobs which required higher levels of education. With fewer unskilled and semi-skilled jobs available, joblessness among young Black males rose sharply while labor-force participation rates declined steadily, to the point where joblessness "has reached catastrophic proportions...
Another debate that has embroiled the campus in recent years focuses on the role of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Founded in 1919 with a $50,000 grant from Herbert Hoover, the semi-independent research center is officially dedicated to demonstrating the "evils of the doctrine of Karl Marx," and has long functioned as a conservative think tank. Its close ties to the Reagan Administration have prompted protests from faculty members who wish either to bring the institution under tighter academic governance or to obtain a divorce. Tensions between the Stanford faculty and Hoover flared last year...
...constant opening of soda cans or the incessant munching and crunching of Doritos that prove to be the most bothersome. It's not even so much the festering and lingering putrid odor of semi-microwaved food eating away at your brain, just at the moment you're deepest into studying for that final exam worth 75 percent of your grade...
Traditionally the Lowell House Opera invites professional singers from outside of Harvard to participate in their annual production. In the leading role of Mrs. Ford. Martha Warren displays a talent that more than substantiates her credentials. A recent semi-finalist in the prestigious Metropolitan Opera auditions. Warren has incredible stamina and poise. But what makes her performance unique is the tremendous amount of personality she brings to her character...
...show is produced and directed by Harvard students, and most of the people in the orchestra and crew are undergraduates. But the cast only contains four Harvard students. The remainder of the cast is made up of semi-professionals from local music schools except for Falstaff who is played by William Beeman, a professor of anthropology at Brown University...