Word: sheerness
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...chatter after the event, among the legitimate audience, consisted of a single strain: sheer disgust. Liberal and conservative students alike were mortified and disgusted by the behavior of the protestors who were not only disruptive to the panelists but were disrespectful to their fellow Harvard students. Less than an hour after the panel, Russell P. Leino ’05, posted an e-mail to the Cabot House open-list stating that “I always thought the point of a protest was to offer an alternative idea to the one being presented, not drown out ideas one disagrees...
Entering the library can be a semi-daunting venture—first there’s the sheer willpower required to get you there, then you must have your ID in hand and your mind geared to working, or at best, not to sleeping—but exiting is a downright harrowing, time-consuming experience. Before you are allowed to return to the lively world outside the somber library, the book-checkers force you to open each pocket of your (often multi-pocketed) bag to look for library materials. The recent announcement of a pilot program to keep Lamont open...
...consumers. C for choice. It was the day that a powerful company in Atlanta felt compelled to return to Americans their national drink. When Coca-Cola announced last April that it was changing the taste of the world's most popular soda, it failed to foresee the sheer frustration and fury that the news would create. From Bangor to Burbank, from Detroit to Dallas, tens of thousands of Coke lovers rose up as one to revile the suddenly sweeter taste of their favorite beverage and demand old Coke back...
Even more daunting than the sheer size of the program is the requirement that it run flawlessly the first time out, a phenomenon unprecedented in the short history of computers. Says M.I.T. Physicist Herbert Lin, who last month published a critique of the Star Wars software problem: "No program works right the first time." A computer system as complex as Star Wars' can be expected to contain tens of thousands of errors. Some of these could be eliminated by testing component parts one at a time. But when these components are finally put together, new bugs inevitably turn...
...tandem at more than 300 m.p.h. Most of the time the display of flying finesse comes off without a hitch. In the 39 years since the Navy's elite Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Team was established, some 168 million onlookers have watched the Angels' shows, mouths agape at the sheer skill and bravery involved...