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...Filling Harvard's number-three singles spot was Mike Shyjan, who lost a rollercoaster three set game, 7-6, 3-6, 6-4. At one point in the third set, Shyjan was up, 3-0, before losing his momentum. Inclement weather forced the match indoors, which translated into a slight advantage for the Mountaineers and their bigserve style...
...know that Harvard is facing a slight budget crunch, but things must be pretty bad if the dean of students is forced to make his business calls from a pay phone. In an anticlimactic denoument, The Crimson later learned that Epps had been courteous enough to return his calls from a conference he was attending at Tufts. The phones in the dean's office, we are assured, are working just fine...
...uttered with a slight sneer. Slowly, it starts to be used as an adjective modifying the noun greed...
Scientists, moreover, cannot guarantee that these trials will be risk free. If a vaccine is made from a whole AIDS virus, for example, there will be a slight danger that some of those vaccinated will get the disease. In 1955, during early testing of the polio vaccine, 80 children in California got the illness from improperly prepared shots. Even if the immunization works and produces large amounts of antibodies to HIV, participants will have to cope with the social stigma of being HIV positive. The antibodies generated by a vaccine are the same ones that doctors look for when they...
Baker thus was only being realistic when he asserted, "We are dealing with the most intractable problem, I think, that there is." He professed nonetheless to be encouraged even by the slight progress he made. Said the Secretary: "You have to crawl before you walk, and you have to walk before you run." But how much time will there be to crawl or walk before the Middle East returns to a normality spelled...