Word: shifting
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...pipeline—in elementary and middle schools—are generating smaller numbers than have been coming up and through high school,” said Payzant, who led the Boston Public Schools from 1995 to 2006. “There’s no dramatic shift in the dropout rate or graduation rate of students. It’s overall demographics...
...water from the collections. “We’re successfully drying everything out,” said Pamela Spitzmueller, the chief conservator for special collections in the Harvard University and College Libraries. The pipe burst was discovered by a staff member who was put on an extra shift during Saturday’s downpour to check for flooding, according to Harvard College Library spokeswoman Beth Brainard. The pipe had already been scheduled for a maintenance check, Brainard added. The library’s emergency team was on site within 10 minutes of the first report and worked throughout...
...really good race. I watched it with Megan [Watson]. We thought they were way too far right.” The B division boat took some chances in their Sunday triumph, starting the race as the lone boat on the right side of the river, anticipating a favorable shift in wind direction. “We did a few things that the coach didn’t exactly approve of,” Bock said. “Luckily, it paid off. Technically, that shouldn’t have worked.” Bock and Powers, who are sailing...
Former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, who is scheduled to take a shift at the Pub in a few weeks, came to “see how it’s done...
...upstairs,” he sings. Cave laughs at the euphemism for a sympathetic God, while simultaneously alluding to Lazarus’—or even his own—insanity.The undeniable power of the first song would have been enough to justify the Seeds’ dramatic shift in sound, but the album brandishes ten more tracks burning on the same brand of fuel. “Today’s Lesson,” a road-trip rocker, surges along on a foreboding bass riff while Cave croons about lust and violence jumping from dreams...