Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what if Harvard students were just compared with themselves? The grades would fall drastically. A C, however, looks bad no matter what school one gets it from. Obviously, competition would increase, and this is not usually an environment conducive to learning for the sheer value of learning--the university's highest function. Also, Harvard is not similar to high school, in which many disparate ability levels exist; here, all students fall within a very narrow band of ability--exceptional ability--and what is to differentiate one from another? Further, Harvard students deserve some kind of reward (a good grade...
...leadership, and could jeopardize the talks. There are still a lot of people who want them to continue, but this will make it much more difficult." It is possible that an IRA splinter group is trying to call a halt to the negotiations, but the sheer scale of the operation implies that a large efficient group did the job. Hillenbrand calls the operation "a very professional, very clean job. The bombers could be very high up the IRA chain of command...
Indeed, the sheer amount of historical research that went into preparing this year's report was unusual as well. Rudenstine's predecessors often used their reports to address specific issues from the previous year or challenges on the horizon...
...artists hail from a variety of countries--China, India, the Philippines and Vietnam, to name a few--yet many share similar experiences with war and poverty. Accordingly, the works, which range from large and small-scale mixed media to straight acrylic paintings, are all informed with an undercurrent of sheer nervous or stressful energy, giving many a frenzied and busy look that sometimes gives the piece an overdone, overblown appearance...
...first of many the play has in store, as the relationships between the sisters and their mistress seem to change totally from one minute to the next. By thrusting the audience into this complex psychological game without telling us the rules, Genet is able to communicate the sheer strangeness of the sisters' inner lives; some act of violence seems necessary to shatter the feverish atmosphere...