Word: sheerly
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...temptation of an easy option of launching periodic capital campaign is ultimately as self-defeating as it is illusory. Even on the order of $2 billion or $2.5 billion, it will merely serve to make up for what had been irresponsibly lost between them through sheer mismanagement...
There is one particular part of HMC which would require the special attention of the President and Fellows as well as of the Overseers--the handling of the $1.25 billion risk capital or private placement portfolio. Other factors beside sheer professional losses may be responsible for monumental losses...
These are a range of problems to be addressed. At Harvard, we are uniquely situated to acknowledge problems and find solutions, if not out of some sense of noblesse oblige or of the fundamental realization of each other humanity, then, of the sheer challenge of solving formidable intellectual problems...
American culture vultures generally gush over the vigor and variety of the London stage and lament that their own vidiotic society offers nothing comparable. But for the past couple of years, although London's sheer theatrical volume has vastly exceeded Broadway's, the quality of new work has been conspicuously higher in the U.S., and London's saving grace has been imports, with recent best-play awards going to works from Ireland, Chile and New York City. The dependence is even deeper when it comes to musicals. When three opened in one week last month, the only homegrown entry...
...enough into this world to make faith in him a most reasonable thing. But he has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason alone," Zacharias said...