Word: sized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time when prospective students are often closely considering class size while applying to college, Harvard's admissions prospectus may be sending mixed messages...
...discovered about a dozen links that look suspicious: call sheets preceding donations that landed partly in hard accounts. Staff members at the D.N.C. were shifting the cash because soft money, designated for general party-building activities, is easier to come by: donations aren't as strictly limited in size as they are with hard money for individual races. But moving that money pushed many donors, who had already made hard-money contributions, over their legal limits. Once it was apparent that Clinton's calls suggested the same problem as Gore's, Reno decided she could not treat the President...
...atypical self-help book. Stephen Covey, on the other hand, has the format down cold. His genius is for complicating the obvious, and as a result his books are graphically chaotic. Charts and diagrams bulge from the page. Sidebars and boxes chop the chapters into bite-size morsels. The prose buzzes with the cant phrases--empower, modeling, bonding, agent of change--without which his books would deflate like a blown tire. He uses more exclamation points than Gidget...
Moskowitz's most drastic impact, though, has been in Jerusalem itself. Since the mid-1980s he has used his personal fortune, the size of which is unknown, to buy up Arab-owned properties in East Jerusalem and pay for settlers to live in them. Janet Aviad, a leader of the group Peace Now, says, "Moskowitz is the biggest backer of Jews moving into East Jerusalem." She counts at least 10 buildings he has bought from Arabs there and estimates that he has invested nearly $20 million in the enterprise altogether...
...when you walk into the dining hall and see a chamber orchestra and ten deans lined up in black tie to greet you for an "elegant meal," or those Saturdays when you roll out of bed and into the Square and slowly realize that there is a moonwalk the size of your dorm sitting in the middle of Mass...