Word: sheers
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...leading students to treat academics as merely some obstacle toward graduation. At other times, this attitude is based on a priority set that places academic coursework below social, extracurricular or athletic obligations. And, more often than we’d like to admit, this attitude is fueled by sheer laziness...
...though the University’s investments have at times been highly controversial, the sheer magnitude of the final product has caused much of that controversy to fall by the wayside...
...athletics. I only did so because I knew that hockey once served to unite the campus and could do so once again. As great as Harvard's 7-4 win over Yale in the playoffs this year was, the truly beautiful sight was the throng of students erupting in sheer elation over the team's feat...
Harvard's guts were never so apparent as when Witcher, Wing, and Brown launched furious comebacks to secure their victories. For other players, however, the afternoon was less about guts and more about sheer dominance. No. 2 Margaret Elias dominated All-American Janine Thompson in three games, and Wadhwa and Harmeling also cruised to victory...
...wont to do. Nor does one necessarily have to agree with the Economist's famous pre-election pronunciamento that the cloud of criminal allegations surrounding Berlusconi made him "not fit to lead the government of any country." All you need to do is look at the record. The sheer scale of Berlusconi's financial and business dealings - when the state-owned networks and his own Mediaset empire are taken together, the Prime Minister now effectively controls 90% of Italy's broadcasting - makes it legitimate to ask whether his administration will be able toadhere to traditional democratic restraints on the behavior...