Word: sheering
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...this crisis compared to any other that I've been through or studied is not that we have debt problems or not that the stock market's come down. The most outstanding feature to me is the level of fear this financial crisis has created - the panic, the sheer loss of confidence. I certainly have not been through one like this. Even the '82 market one wasn't this bad from a fear perspective...
...violent upheavals in Lebanon, and more often than not Sulhani's family has been caught in the middle. Abdullah's 59-year-old daughter Ahlam is still picking shrapnel out of wounds she received from artillery fire in 1975. The family survived the infamous Shatila massacre of 1982 by sheer luck, fleeing from Lebanese militiamen almost as soon as the slaughter began. When they returned afterwards, most of their neighbors were dead, and there was a body in the living-room closet. One of Ahlam's brothers was later shot in the head by a sniper while washing his hands...
...most need financial assistance to attend college. The Department of Education should therefore try to shorten and simplify the form in any way possible—though we hope that potential streamlining does not engender a wave of supplemental questionnaires required by individual schools. To ensure that the sheer length and complexity of the FAFSA form does not discourage potential applicants from applying, Harvard should commit itself to offering assistance to applicants who cannot decipher the unfortunately labyrinthine financial-aid process on their own. Paying for college is already difficult enough—the last thing we need...
...three reasons for refraining included: negative expectations about the effects of assistance, feelings of being too busy to seek or receive care, and feelings of stigma or shame about needing help. This statistic is unsettling for a number of reasons, but the most striking of these is its sheer magnitude. A startlingly high percentage of students experience severe emotional distress and yet feel compelled to forgo professional help...
...claw our way there.”But as Sanes and Lichtman seek to add to human understanding, they say they’re also hoping to attract undergrads to their field. Both teach MCB 80: “Neurobiology of Behavior,” where they say the sheer amount of new material in recent years illustrates the growing importance of neurobiology.“Sometimes there is this feeling that science has gone only so far, and all there is left to do is to pick up the scraps,” Lichtman says. “That...