Word: simpler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...past, Harvard search committees have asked for only a little, if any, administrative experience from those it appointed president. While never an easy task, running Harvard then was much simpler than it is now. Anyone with leadership ability, a respectable scholarly background, a good family and a wide array of contacts was seen as qualified...
During this high-stress midterm period, many Harvard students dream of simpler times when homework could be done before dinner and tests covered a week's worth of material. There's no going back to the carefree days of youth, but for a few dollars, director John Weinstein's production of Grease can make you forget that exam...
...thing, which is that because of misinformation and misperceptions, there are misjudgments as to where a nation's interests lie and what can be accomplished. Take the missile crisis, for example. In what was a very simple situation, short in time -- two weeks -- simple in relations among states, much simpler than the gulf or much simpler than Vietnam -- you cannot imagine the extent of misjudgment, misinformation. Events were really out of the control of either party, though both the Russians and we were trying to maintain control...
...last spring -- just 3 1/2 years short of retirement. Although his children are grown, living on unemployment has required some belt tightening. "Not much you can do," he sighs. "Pay the bills. Taxes are going up, and we don't have much money coming in." It makes for a simpler life. "Once in a while we used to like to go out to a lounge and have a few dances, a couple of drinks. Once in a while probably take in a show. Now we go to McDonald...
...liberation? Kuwaitis themselves have a vested interest in the answers to those questions -- but so does the rest of the world, and particularly the half-million allied troops massed for war in the gulf. For now that Saddam Hussein has released his foreign hostages, the question has become simpler: Is Kuwait worth dying...