Word: short
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Despite coming up short in his quest for the national title, Blake's season was by all measures a rousing success. At season's close, Blake remained at the No. 1 ranked player in the country...
...think there was any one time we could say we were disappointed," Ciollo said. "A championship is always something that you dream of and try to achieve, but I don't think we fell short of our realistic expectations. There was no big disappointment like that...
Perhaps the area where Harvard falls most short is in its response to sexual assault. Most other schools to which coalition members point have a clinic actually inside the women's center or elsewhere on campus where rape victims can be treated...
...choice to defer--postponing graduate or professional school in favor of a short-term commitment--was an attractive option for many seniors. With the pressures of the "real world" looming, some chose to defer, while others have decided to leap directly into their long-term careers...
However, while praising the benefits of leavingCambridge to play baseball in Australia or to gotraveling in Nepal, Fitzsimmons notes that theinstability of deferral, no matter how short-term,tends to be anxiety-inducing for Harvard-typepersonalities...